| It gives you the sense of the forwardness of history as well as the backwardness. |
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| In their elitism and sense of entitlement, they represent much of what liberals are supposed to despise. |
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| It is a product of the baby-boomer ethos, and if a sense of inevitability has dissipated, good riddance. |
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| Outside the church service Friday night, Annette Cook stood with her daughters trying to make sense of what happened. |
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| But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability. |
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| He believes brain chemistry undermines his sense of free will and personhood and that psychology explains away love and altruism. |
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| By working together on this capsule collection, we hope to instill a sense of power, confidence and beauty in women everywhere. |
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| There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage. |
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| The whole domain of law and judging was bounded, in Bork's view, by a like sense of responsibility. |
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| This is about as explicit as 1Q84 ever gets, and even here the sense of things is allusive. |
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| In both book and movie, his sense of alienation is almost palpable, but only the novel supplies explanations. |
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| There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of avarice was in the air. |
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| That should have reassured me, and yet the moment I entered the camper an unspeakable sense of dread grabbed hold of me. |
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| Also in his favor, the congressman has a dark, bone-dry sense of humor that plays well with media types. |
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| There was a sense of ease in the loose white shirt-dresses, billowing skirts, and roomy pajama pants. |
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| Liesl Schillinger to the rescue with a bevy of words that might help you make sense of it all. |
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| This kind of thing sits in black American minds and creates a sense of alienation. |
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| She proves that by authentically following a strong personal sense of style its hard to go too far wrong. |
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| And the statuesque brunette has even been credited with bettering the fashion sense of her high-powered husband. |
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| Although he brings a Western spin to things, he seems equally inspired by the local sense of style. |
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| Overcoming Fear The third chakra, at the solar plexus, manipura, is about overcoming fear and attaining a sense of belonging. |
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| He has a sense of honor and an instinct for revenge when he feels his honor has been besmirched. |
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| They offer no suggestions of aerodynamic speed or a masterful sense of balance and coordination. |
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| There is a sense of grandeur in the idea that paying heavily is a means of advancing knowledge. |
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| Because caricatures break down when you see over-heated political passions with a sense of perspective. |
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| Now in her 70's, living in Ontario, Feld Carr tells the story with a delightful sense of astonishment that it ever took place. |
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| First, Michelle raised the aspirations and sense of urgency for the entire reform movement. |
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| The sense of insecurity is heightened by the uncertainty and a feeling of abandonment. |
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| The Middle Passage served not only to erase a slave’s sense of human dignity, but the journey also wiped away the collective knowledge and cultural history of those captured. |
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| With her artful fusion of fact and fiction, Phillips pulls off a rare sense of lightness and grace at the end of the novel. |
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| He quickly remarried, leaving McWilliam with an almost fairytale sense of not belonging. |
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| Of course, there is plenty to celebrate, but there is an unmistakable sense of apprehension hanging over the anniversary. |
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| The modern world has strayed somewhat from fostering the same sense of adventure that bred his youthful imagination. |
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| Despite a burning sense of Scottish pride, Barclay, 73, said he was worried about the economy. |
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| As the brazen crime leads to the discovery of several bodies, media coverage feeds a sense of security imperiled. |
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| The painting is at the Metropolitan Museum, which considers it an allegory of the sense of sight. |
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| These revised symbols were used to instil in the public a new sense of tradition and reverence for the Enlightenment and the Republic. |
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| Britain had a sense of loss of control, as well as loss of markets, and was worried by Napoleon's possible threat to its overseas colonies. |
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| Despite his personality, he remained a highly professional leader and was driven all his life by a strong sense of duty. |
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| The word acquired the sense of 'elevated rolling grassland' around the fourteenth century. |
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| There was a sense of urgency in preserving the scientific work which they perceived as being threatened by the Protectorate. |
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| Crick spoke rapidly, and rather loudly, and had an infectious and reverberating laugh, and a lively sense of humour. |
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| A luminarium is a monumental walk-in sculpture which people enter to be moved by a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. |
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| It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of their need of salvation by Jesus Christ. |
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| Industry, frugality, calling, discipline, and a strong sense of responsibility are at the heart of their moral code. |
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| This sense of being connected makes a difference to how the Methodist Church as a whole is structured. |
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| In Japan, development of social skills and a sense of group belonging are major goals. |
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| When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a chartered town. |
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| Like PSY, the Tractate articulates a pleromatic system in the sense of a configuration of the divine sphere. |
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| The approach of the deadline quickened our sense of urgency. |
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| Acoria consists in the absence of normal sense of satiety after eating, so that the patient never knows when hunger is appeased. |
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| Fashion, the parasite of Rank, apeth faults and failings, Until the general Taste depraved hath warped its sense of beauty. |
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| For Watt's sense of chronology was strong, in a way, and his dislike of battology was very strong. |
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| In Kiwi language anyway, the Minister of Industries and Commerce will go down in history as a real bottler in every sense of the word. |
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| And in the cloud-headed days that followed, he struggled to make sense of this. Perhaps he was dreaming. |
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| The man was not clean but she had long since lost any sense of disgust at the urine smell and the small curds of cock-cheese. |
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| Its conception is entirely independent of the moral sense of the concipient, and may be said to be the objective apprehension. |
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| He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor. |
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| Chronic defluxion from the nose, with sense of stuffing and fulness, occasionally attends cerebral congestion. |
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| Lisa, whose sense of things delphinic I trust implicitly, thought they seemed fine with it, too. |
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| I have tried to explain the sense of dynamis fundamental to Aristotle's philosophy. |
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| Thanks to him, I have a better sense of what it takes to morph gracefully into elderdom. |
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| Nothing short of an imperative sense of duty could tempt me to set forth on that most perilous emprise, a discussion of the American language. |
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| We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and determination! |
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| The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating. |
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| A sense of fastidiousness made the doctor choose the left side, near the door, when he slept in it himself with Clara. |
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| Titus moved his dry tongue across his lips and sat down on the flagged floor, but a sense of terror jerked him to his feet again. |
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| A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him. |
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| The organ of gustation is not, therefore, restricted to the production of that sense, but participates in the sense of touch. |
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| Now, however, the windows in the houses began one by one to be lit up, giving a greater sense of habitation and humanity. |
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| The tendency to follow trends and explore one's sense of self goes hand in hand with being a teenager. |
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| Therefore, it shows definitions in the order that the sense of the word began being used, including word meanings which are no longer used. |
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| This is exciting, high-strung, Horowitzian pianism that is tempered by unfailing good taste, tonal subtlety, and a true sense of Lisztian style. |
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| The literal sense of understanding scripture is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture. |
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| The still small voice of conscience and the sense of beauty are direct messages from the incognoscible Beyond. |
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| He may well have been influenced by his mother in this regard, as Matilda also had a strong sense of ancestral rights and privileges. |
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| This reinforcement of the aristocracy must be seen in conjunction with the war in France, as must the emerging sense of national identity. |
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| The clipping of words is a harmless habit, used less for speed in spoken communication than for its sense of novelty or insiderness. |
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| Institutionalism is brought about, in part, by a sense of learned helplessness, a belief that one has no control over one's environment. |
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| It seemed as if the sense of public resentment had long been gathering strength unperceived, and now burst forth into insuppressible violence. |
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| Warwick and his supporters even began to launch raids on the English coast from Calais, adding to the sense of chaos and disorder. |
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| Reverend Harris ran Clerkebury with an iron hand and an abiding sense of fairness. |
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| A nice sense of when to speak, if ever, to the person beside one is a good part of airplane manners, or jetiquette. |
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| And I would ask counsel to check his sense of humor at the door. My courtroom is a temple of decorum, and I do not tolerate jibber-jabber. |
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| Although he generally disliked children, Morris also exhibited a strong sense of responsibility toward his family. |
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| There now appears a romantic sense of a high kingly mission and the clear cognisance of the capacity to fulfil it. |
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| Working around the wreck for so much time, you get such a strong sense of the profound sadness and injustice of it, and the message of it. |
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| Despite its impressive spread, this nebari does not confer the usual sense of stability. |
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| The line has since become a metaphor for expensive efforts that offer a false sense of security. |
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| Its construction created a false sense of security, which was widely believed by the French population. |
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| Powerful local nobles turned their cities, counties and duchies into private kingdoms, that felt little sense of obligation to the emperor. |
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| A sense of Indonesian nationhood exists alongside strong regional identities. |
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| Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity and common culture of the Scottish people. |
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| Sight and hearing are the wildcat's primary senses when hunting, its sense of smell being comparatively weak. |
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| Its sense of smell is very well developed, to the point that the animal is used for drug detection in Germany. |
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| National identity is one's identity or sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. |
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| It is the sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, language and politics. |
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| By expressing the myths of having common descent and common destiny, people's sense of belonging to a nation is enhanced. |
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| Some countries are more inclusive in terms of encouraging immigrants to develop a sense of belonging to their host country. |
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| As the Church of Scotland is not governed by bishops, it has no cathedrals in the episcopal sense of the word. |
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| The back line to hog line speed is used principally by sweepers to get an initial sense of the weight of a stone. |
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| The Cambrian Archaeological Society was founded at a time when a sense of Welsh national identity was increasingly asserting itself. |
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| Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that the normies don't have. |
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| The olfactory lobes are absent in dolphins, suggesting that they have no sense of smell. |
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| Dolphins are not thought to have a good sense of taste, as their taste buds are atrophied or missing altogether. |
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| The olfactory lobes are absent in porpoises, suggesting that they have no sense of smell. |
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| Smoking was also associated with representations of both the sense of smell and that of taste. |
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| But such an argument can only meaningfully be made with a nuancedly situated and historically informed sense of the stakes involved. |
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| Meetings lasted hours but from the beginning there was a sense of conviction of sin. |
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| But there is no doubting the remarkable sense of the presence of God in his ministry. |
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| By claiming descent from a solid Yemenite tribe, the Rasulids brought Yemen to a vital sense of unity in an otherwise chaotic regional milieu. |
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| The flag of Wales has been used by those in the arts, sport and business to show a sense of patriotism or recognition with Wales. |
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| He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing. |
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| You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was. |
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| Killer whales have good eyesight above and below the water, excellent hearing, and a good sense of touch. |
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| Although pinnipeds have a fairly good sense of smell on land, it is useless underwater as their nostrils are closed. |
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| A recurrent theme of Theroux's books is this sense of being an alien, on the outside looking in. |
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| Unionist areas of Northern Ireland often display this and other symbols to show the loyalty and sense of identity of the community. |
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| I do not have a non-perspectival sense of objectivity here because of its prima facie lack of operationalizability. |
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| When calculated as a ratio against the map scale, a sense of the hilliness of the terrain can be derived. |
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| Mancall notes that Churchyard's pamphlet provides a sense of immediacy so often lacking in retrospective writing. |
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| The olfactory lobes are absent in toothed whales, suggesting that they have no sense of smell. |
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| The term is used to imply both a sense of urgency and actual or potential harm. |
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| The Norse had a strong sense of naval architecture, and during the early medieval period they were advanced for their time. |
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| Evidence of Russia's false sense of security and superiority to Japan is seen by Russian reference to Japan choosing war as a big mistake. |
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| Related attempts to reduce future erosion may provide a false sense of security that increases development pressure. |
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| As a callow sixth-former with an overinflated sense of my own poetic importance, I was in need of friendly advice and encouragement. |
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| Although their sense of smell is acute, their eyesight is monochromatic as has been shown by their lack of reaction to red lanterns. |
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| The fork in the tongue gives snakes a sort of directional sense of smell and taste simultaneously. |
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| These narratives focus on human actors, with only occasional intervention from deities but a pervasive sense of divinely ordered destiny. |
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| Even without Homer, the Trojan War story had remained central to Western European medieval literary culture and its sense of identity. |
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| His forceful version is freer, with shorter lines that increase the sense of swiftness and energy. |
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| The sense of rotation of these currents may either be cyclonic or anticyclonic. |
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| Those setbacks have contributed to a partywide sense of foreboding about keeping the White House in Republican hands. |
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| Having a keen sense of smell, eels most likely depend on scent to find food. |
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| Language is central to the communication between humans, and to the sense of identity that unites nations, cultures and ethnic groups. |
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| The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. |
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| Essentially saying the theory of absolutes, or metaphysical realism, was unnecessary to make sense of the world. |
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| The outer edges of her paintings were often left unfinished, allowing the canvas to show through and increasing the sense of spontaneity. |
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| A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. |
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| Other English coastal towns have successfully sought to project a sense of their unique character. |
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| Note that stock in the term is business related and used in a sense of inventory. |
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| Later, in part related to his occupation as a gravedigger, he developed an unhealthy, macabre sense of humour. |
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| The second, and more recent, sense of the word art as an abbreviation for creative art or fine art emerged in the early 17th century. |
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| The word fasti thus came to be used in the general sense of annals or historical records. |
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| This is evidence that by this time a sense of common interest was emerging among the provinces of the Netherlands. |
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| Another is to create a sense of military tradition, which is used to create cohesive military forces. |
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| The state as a whole tried to work out a sense of a distinctively Austrian identity. |
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| Another institution key to unifying the German states, the Zollverein, helped to create a larger sense of economic unification. |
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| Numerous movements developed around various cultural groups, who began to develop a sense of national identity. |
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| Many scholars now use the term chattel slavery to refer to this specific sense of legalised, de jure slavery. |
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| Thais have a strong sense of hospitality and generosity, but also a strong sense of social hierarchy. |
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| The relative absence of a strong sense of belonging to an independent country was the underlying reason for Joey Smallwood's referendum victory. |
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| Their sense of smell, while much better than that of humans, is not quite as good as that of a dog. |
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| The perfect in all moods is used as an aspectual marker, conveying the sense of a resultant state. |
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| Grimm's law consists of three parts which form consecutive phases in the sense of a chain shift. |
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| Computer research has revealed that grammar, in the sense of its ability to create entirely new language, is avoided as far as possible. |
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| It is still not a hymn in the narrow sense of the formal and structural criteria of hymnody. |
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| The term uncial in the sense of describing this script was first used by Jean Mabillon in the early 18th century. |
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| Legislators are much occupied with ascertaining 'first meanings', with trying to secure the literal sense of their predecessors' legislation. |
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| As for what this letter says, in my opinion not even the Pythian god could make sense of it. |
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| This sense of vowel reduction may occur by means other than vowel centralisation, however. |
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| The tension between adherents of the BCP and advocates of the BAS has contributed to a sense of disaffection within the Church. |
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| The arrival in Boston of the British Army heightened their sense of violated rights, leading to rage and demands for revenge. |
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| The presence of paras, which are neighbourhoods that possess a strong sense of community, is characteristic of the city. |
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| And so he trained his qi, his breath, and his sense of timing, so that strength and size became irrelevant to his understanding of Aikido. |
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| Along with a sense of history, traditions have a fluidity that cause them to evolve and adapt over time. |
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| Monroe had been formally expelled from France on his last diplomatic mission, and the choice to send him again conveyed a sense of seriousness. |
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| As in the Maurice Debate, his sense of political tactics was, in Jenkins' view, overcome by his sense of Parliamentary propriety. |
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| While most entrepreneurial ventures start out as a small business, not all small businesses are entrepreneurial in the strict sense of the term. |
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| Compelling visions provide employees with a sense of purpose and encourage commitment. |
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| The task related role gives followers a sense of direction for an assignment to be completed in the group. |
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| Capitale emerged in the 12th to 13th centuries in the sense of referring to funds, stock of merchandise, sum of money or money carrying interest. |
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| The term reverberation is used here in a generic sense of rebounding or reflecting, not in the acoustic sense of echoing. |
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| His dedication to his work, his family and his sense of what was right and fair lasted until the day he died. |
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| The Venice Arsenal provides one of the first examples of a factory in the modern sense of the word. |
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| Together with that of Xun Kuang, their sense of human progress and reason guided the Qin dynasty. |
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| Moss is thought to add a sense of calm, age, and stillness to a garden scene. |
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| This ridge end position gives the fell a sense of isolation and increased stature, with steep faces on three sides. |
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| The four prided themselves on their sense of style, sense of humour, and appreciation of beauty. |
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| No matter how jolly and zestful he may appear to be, the fact remains that he possesses an unusually sharp sense of evil. |
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| The sentences build on each other, as events build to create a sense of the whole. |
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| It appeared in Scottish Romanticist literature, and acquired the more general or figurative sense of portent or omen. |
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| However, the recognition of sea-floor spreading made sense of continental splitting without having to invoke earth expansion. |
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| Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. |
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| Easily one of the best directed SFM movies out there, mixing Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and a fine sense of timing. |
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| It is safe to say that the academic world is now convinced that sign languages are real languages in every sense of the term. |
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| Be assured that once a soul loses its sense of sinnership and need, it is outside the channel of blessing and grace. |
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| I find that for me, my sponsorship of a child via a charitable NGO provides a sense of great satisfaction. |
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| She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. |
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| This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way. |
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| The team tracked individuals from afar to get a sense of their behavior. |
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| There it was Razumov who had the upper hand, in a composed sense of his own superiority. |
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| Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies. |
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| Others were just larval forms in the sense of Paracelsus, umbratiles, vampires, ghosts. |
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| She had felt a distinct sense of uncompletion and frustration but could recall nothing more than this. |
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| October 29, When you attain a sense of undefeatableness, you will always be high-spirited and confident. |
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| Andersen presents absurdist approaches to questions of life and death, never losing his sense of humor or his lighthearted turn of phrase. |
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| The sense of angst was palpable among the White House press corps. |
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| To me they are inspirational in both spirit and deed, heroic in the untrivialized sense of the word, but definitely not beyond this world. |
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| A strong sense of hierarchy took root as the schools expanded. |
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| Both despair and wanhope are generally defined as a complete loss or lack of hope and being overcome by sense of futility or defeat. |
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| Here, we compare waulking songs and shanties to see how they operated in bringing women and men, respectively, into a sense of close alignment. |
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| The tone, I think, reflects my general sense of growing wussification after deserting my old job at Les Halles. |
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| The youngly born brother made no explanation of his sense of offense other than to go over and give Artie a stolid and resounding blow. |
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| It goes without saying that Cage is an atonalist the fullest sense of the word. |
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| On the other front, Babbitt perceived that the curriculum provided no sense of balance while preparing students for careers. |
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| They have a great sense of performance, bravado, and audacity. |
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| The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell. |
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| Creativity, resilience and a strong sense of place are coalescing in an exhilarating accelerando. |
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| The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs will appeal to the middle-scholar's sense of justice and interest in socially charged situations. |
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| To a certain degree, there is an irrational sense of betrayal. |
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| But, as it is so well-done and well-acted, I'll enjoy trying to make sense of it all during the next four weeks. |
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| There's adry,offbeat sense of humour under the hushed, plum my voice of a true pop aristocrat. |
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| It gave me a sense of pride to see this level of adherence to discipline and wingmanship demonstrated amongst the Airmen. |
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| In the broadest sense of the term, we didn't build anything. |
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| He displayed a sense of fun and quick wittedness strikingly at odds with his gangsta peers. |
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| At a certain tempo alpha waves are generated, which have been associated with a deep sense of concentration and focus. |
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| The first one is basically focused on the creation of a sense of national identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. |
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| The pejorative sense of the term, labelling a flawed or disingenuous work of historiography, is found in another 1815 attestation. |
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| The gums increase the viscosity and body adding to the sense of smoothness. |
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| Moore's sense of England emerging undefeated from siege led to his focus on pieces characterised by endurance and continuity. |
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| It reflects the seriousness and sense of responsibility that characterized the ruling class of Rome during the great years of the republic. |
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| What most interested the poet, however, was the literal sense of Biblical sources as opposed to their typological or allegorical significance. |
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| Wright suggests that hendiadys had been used deliberately to heighten the play's sense of duality and dislocation. |
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| As the primary sense of motivation, this desire is reflected even in the scenery depictions and the story's overall mood. |
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| Bradbrook, provided a more vivid sense of how Jonson's work was shaped by the expectations of his time. |
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| In this extended early modern sense of atheism, Hobbes did take positions that strongly disagreed with church teachings of his time. |
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| The Victorian sense of poetry as the work of indulgence and luxuriant fancy offered a schema into which Keats was posthumously fitted. |
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| Liberals in the original sense of the word see equality as a necessary component of freedom. |
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| He enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, lacked a clear, specific sense of what he wanted to become, and yet knew he wanted fame. |
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| This sense of moral duty and the need to record it, are more evident in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. |
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| Elements from these works show up in her fiction, much of which is written with her trademark sense of agnostic humanism. |
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| Her Mother's birthday being the 31st and mine the 30th of the same month, we congratulated her on her sense of the fitness of things. |
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| This was a period when Dodgson began suffering great mental and spiritual anguish and confessing to an overwhelming sense of his own sin. |
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| Lawrence felt all poems had to be personal sentiments, and that a sense of spontaneity was vital. |
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| The same passages are often used by telephone call centres to induce a sense of calm in customers waiting in a queue. |
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| According to Palmer, it is arguable that Delius gained his sense of direction as a composer from his French contemporary Claude Debussy. |
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| Mason's failing marriage left him in a general malaise and with a sense of apathy, both of which interfered with his drumming. |
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| The lyrics and accompanying photo booklet are infused with a specific sense of place and time that is otherwise rare in his music. |
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| Much of Stewart's sense of phrasing was developed during his time with the Jeff Beck Group. |
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| Regardless, Britpop artists project a sense of reverence for British pop sounds of the past. |
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| However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. |
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| The writings of Neville Cardus at this time were instrumental in emphasising the sense of rivalry between the two teams. |
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| In popular culture the term is sometimes used to refer to a sense of sportsmanship and fair play. |
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| Known for his unique sense of style, Eubank won the Britain's Best Dressed Man many times. |
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| The word 'romance' with the modern sense of romance novel or love affair has the same origin. |
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| National identity is a person's subjective sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. |
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| It often also involves a sense of pride in the nation's achievements, and is closely linked to the concept of patriotism. |
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| She does have a deep sense of religious and civic duty, and takes her coronation oath seriously. |
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| Brown rejected the label feudalism as an anachronism that imparts a false sense of uniformity to the concept. |
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| Nonetheless, Burke's effort had the effect of creating a sense of responsibility in British public life for the Company's dominion in India. |
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| And thus, we can perhaps makes some sense of the narratives he reads as mise en abymes of his own desires. |
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| Obviously, the visible presence of the protective fighters gave the bomber pilots a greater sense of security. |
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| Karl Marx, on the other hand, opposed piecemeal reforms advanced by middle class reformers out of a sense of duty. |
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| A fault's sense of slip is defined as the relative motion of the rock on each side of the fault with respect to the other side. |
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| The majority of colonists developed a strong sense of devotion to the Crown. |
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| Qatar National Day, hosted annually on 18 December, has had an important role in developing a sense of national identity. |
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| Hart is one of those rare men... whose directness and sense of conscience have led others to regard him as the moral compass of the Senate. |
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| My colleagues in the Government join with me in expressing to you our sense of the world's loss in the death of your distinguished husband. |
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| He questioned the sense of HS2 terminating at Euston, with HS1 at St Pancras and no through running connection between them. |
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| This sense of Basque identity tied to the local language does not exist in isolation. |
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| It is juxtaposed with an equally strong sense of national identity tied with the use of the Spanish and French languages among other Basques. |
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| A strong sense of linguistic purism is found in Modern Tamil, which opposes the use of foreign loanwords. |
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| Growth in numbers and increasing hostility impressed upon the revival converts a deep sense of their corporate identity. |
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| And in their dance to that end they show a frenetic vitality and a wry sense of the ridiculous that balance heartache and laughter. |
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| He has expressed grief both for a lost father and a missing past, but he has no sense of being a survivor, at whatever remove. |
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| Despite their political differences, Waugh came to admire George Orwell, because of their shared patriotism and sense of morality. |
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| No was released, Fleming gave Bond a sense of humour that was not present in the previous stories. |
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| It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. |
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| Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. |
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| Pater gave Wilde his sense of almost flippant devotion to art, though it was John Ruskin who gave him a purpose for it. |
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| He was left with a painful sense of the hopelessness of the Polish question and an acceptance of England as a possible refuge. |
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| Personal memories created in him a great sensitivity for human degradation and a sense of moral responsibility. |
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| The pair enjoyed each other's sense of humour and shared a fondness for clubbing. |
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| At that time Germany was a multitude of small separate states, and Goethe's works would have a seminal influence in developing a unifying sense of nationalism. |
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| As the peat preserves old plants and pollen to some degree, due to its anaerobic nature, it is possible to get some sense of the former vegetation of the island. |
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| But a man like Mortimer Sturgis, with thirty-eight golfless years behind him, is swept off his feet. He is carried away. He loses all sense of proportion. |
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| All of these components collide to make music that rides the line between hard-core and alt-rock with force and an underlying sense of personal culpability. |
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| In Vietnam and Ghana, among other places, whales hold a sense of divinity. |
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| It did nothing to mitigate Ruskin's consistently exaggerated sense of failure in persuading his readers to share in his own keenly felt priorities. |
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| The text of Urry's edition has often been criticised by subsequent editors for its frequent conjectural emendations, mainly to make it conform to his sense of Chaucer's metre. |
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| The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. |
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| Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood. |
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| At the same time, a sense of Danish nationalism began to develop. |
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| As the use of ambergris waned, this became the main sense of the word. |
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| She began to lose her sense of perspective, what was rightways up or down. |
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| Their sense of smell is good, but weaker than that of specialised dogs. |
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| The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything. |
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| Chesterton's writings consistently displayed wit and a sense of humour. |
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| The work's increased use of Rowleyan language makes the act of reading unavoidably self-conscious as we can no longer rely on our usual ways of making sense of poetry. |
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| Miss Eggleston will speak of the parents' study classes from the standpoint of the schoolwoman in the general sense, not in the specific sense of kindergarten. |
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| His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. |
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| The hosts remained in second gear after the break although Orient, with impressive Daniels a constant outlet down the right, did at least show a sense of adventure. |
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| While neither invisibility nor time travel was new in speculative fiction, Wells added a sense of realism to the concepts which the readers were not familiar with. |
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| In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards. |
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| She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses. |
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| It is noted as a transitional work, both in the move away from Ciceronian style in preaching, and in the changing meaning of elocution to the modern sense of vocal production. |
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| Schools are on holiday, workers have the week off, and a general sense of jubilee fills the streets, where musicians parade around to huge crowds of cheering fans. |
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| A sense of comradeship rather than political conviction led him, while still a student, to join the Kelmscott House Socialist Club in Hammersmith. |
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