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Sentence Examples It is as if the two spaces were collapsing around a single hinge, as if space has been infolded. It is as if to survive, it has had to change names, like a chameleon changing colours. It is as if the novel's intellectual and ideological muddle is merely a superficial layer of flotsam bobbing on a boiling sea of emotion. It is as if by divine providence that I am supplied educational material just when I need it the most. For example, when an audience is carried away by a great performance of a symphony, it is as if their minds are united together. It is as if finally our battles in all their hurtfulness and seriousness are being shown. When one reads his poems it is as if one is beginning a crossword puzzle in which all the clues point toward verbs written in the past perfect. It is as if the great ice field had finally run out of energy when it reached the immovable mass of the Paine massif. It is as if the end of the cold war left the huge defence industry desperate for a new enemy. It is as if she is striving for a kind of mythic quality that does not always come off. It is as if the actors in a burlesque had one by one left the stage and obligingly posed for a photographist. It is as if the rigidity of the object were at war with a softening, playful freedom. It is as if just by isolating language on the page, introducing a certain spacing and lineation, the words are made to speak in a new way. It is as if nature will continue to test mankind, seemingly holding all the aces, in spite of the great advances in science and technology. It is as if each pestilence required its own accountant who is spared in order to put down the death roll of the community. It is as if Yeats, in the manner of the prophetic romantic artist, perceives the historical importance of that year as it happens. It is as if there were a polyphobia, a fear of the many, facing and being faced by others. It is as if we are being presented with, in the plinth, the weight of a materiality which has escaped figuration. It is as if the string section of the orchestra suddenly decided to play its own music, disregarding everyone else. This is as if the Spycatcher affair ten years ago hadn't showed MI5 to be a nest of hard right conspirators. Show More Sentences It is as if the lava from an erupting volcano had hardened into a crust just before it engulfed the neighborhood. If the situation appears bizarre at times, it is as if the whole world has gone mad. It is as if the gift of English as a mother tongue should preclude the learning of any other language. It is as if these artists work to reveal all the contortions and uncontrollability of the society whose inconsistencies they sought to disclose. Somehow that post-tour pint is always more satisfying than a trip to your local boozer, it is as if you have earned the right to be drinking it. It is as if a flashbulb suddenly clicked brightly inside his dark, dark brain. It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace. It is as if the early engagement of many of them with anarchism had left behind a permanent repugnance for the political struggle. It is as if an entire nation that once ate meat and two veg at lunchtime now eats only sandwiches. It is as if that bulky figure, pushing Trinidad and Tobago towards freedom, had never been there at all. It is as if becoming prominent in a public sphere starts to rob you of the energy and vitality that drove you there in the first place. In New Testament terms, it is as if the Epistles were preserved, without any of the four Gospels or Acts of the Apostles. It is as if the disease was only introduced to give the appearance of three dimensions. It is as if the corner of a Rembrandt has been hacked off, so it is extremely important that we don't rush in and make a mess of it. No matter how much I sleep, it is as if my Clinomania is getting converted into insomnia. It is as if she has already passed into a higher plane of existence and is recalling mortal limitations from the other side, as it were. It is as if everyone has been given a dictionary of war rhetoric to make us believe we are fighting for a reason. It is as if our stolid church hymns have been put through a magical transformation and sent back to us full of life, spirit and human feeling. It is as if the history of England had continued to be written since the seventeenth century as that of the conflict between Cavaliers and Roundheads. It is as if the things of beauty, which are now in other places, have only taken up their abode there for a time, while their true home is in Rome. Show More Sentences It is as if the Federalist Papers and the concept of the citizen-soldier had been erased from our collective memory. It is as if the Zodiac Killer and the Unabomber were having an epistolary debate in the newspaper. It is as if the linking z provides an onset for the vowel-commencing word. It is as if theoreticians have told novelists that they have no choice but to fail, and novelists, despite their long history of success, have believed them. The pride of China's naval fleet, wags say, incorporates the very latest in radar-evading stealth technology, so powerful it is as if it didn't even exist. It is as if all my cells respond to their brilliance and become light too. It is as if their role in life is to appease, and even buttress, the white liberal conscience while naturally continuing to do all the dirty work. It is as if it has gone out and said that New Zealand will put on the thickest hair shirt and will go out to the world and lead the way and change behaviour. It is as if an old man were to play out a joke on those younger who have yet to understand that secret wisdom which gives him a gleeful omnipotence over their actions. No, it is as if these arguments have never been uttered before and have the full force of moral righteousness even though it is, to our eyes, infuriatingly absurd. It is as if the Minister was admonished by the PM for conceding that the Government is capable of poor judgment, hasty and injudicious decisions only to avoid the pressure. Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God. It is as if the gutter press are chastising him for leaving native shores. It is as if two identical recording tapes are being slowly pulled out of the crack at the mid ocean ridge, one to either side, and each magnetic reversal is printed onto each tape. It is as if Smilevski is demanding an encore by thumping on his own book. It is as if a strange moon has appeared in the European firmament like a circulating antiaphrodisiac and has lulled Europe into self-negation. It is as if somehow the Eucharist were dependent on the person of the presider instead of the community gathered. It is as if by acting scandalously, they are able to immunize themselves. It is as if Cameron wants to help the SNP and unthread the UK bit by bit. It is as if Sven, the graverobber of Soho Square, has never been away. Show More Sentences It is as if, when hiking in the remote wilderness, one were suddenly to encounter a six-lane highway, a fracking site or some other industrial despoliation. It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same time received upon the other the discipline of the usher's ferule. It is as if the natural world is an enormous bank account of capital assets capable of paying life sustaining dividends indefinitely, but only if the capital is maintained. Examples from Classical Literature She looks into my kennels, and it is as if turpentine had been rubbed on the hounds' snouts. It is as if we took some minute poison with everything that was intended to nourish us. It is as if we had been suddenly transported from some Gothic cathedral to the Parthenon, or to Paestum. It is as if the laws of light should be applied to a question in acoustics. It is as if the composer were endeavoring to set to melody the consonants of his name. It is as if all the tyrants of the country had been sent to this island for safe-keeping. It is as if these striking forms were inherent in the rocks, waiting for the erosive forces to liberate them. It is as if there were now but one and the same soil, reconciled and fraternal. He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine. It is as if I'd been blind all the time I have known you, blind to the truth of you and blinder still to my own truth. It is as if the question was an impossible one, outside the range of thinkable things. This is as if a merchant should never balance his books, or, taking a trial balance, should be heedless of the result. I sit on my chair in the dark room and close my eyes, and it is as if I was out of the body and could feel no want for evermore. The noise is as if a thousand sportsmen were out for a battue. It is as if not they were being indicted, but they were indicting society! It is as if the palace were in quarantine, with the yellow flag floating. It is as if some of the original impulse to make music were reawakening. It is as if she has anticipated Jesus' act of foot washing in anointing his feet. It is as if his heart were corrupted by a malevolent and brooding rancour. Find more words! 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