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Sentence Examples Priam his father has failed to move him with his chiliastic visions of his own terrible end, so Hecuba takes up the thread. Using toys as scale models of their world, children taste, examine and set up their visions of larger worlds. People have imaginatively transfigured their experiences of real life into visions of the unknown world. At the time of leaving the body, many of these Bhaktas actually had visions of their chosen deity. By the end of the novel he is spiritually shipwrecked on the Gold Coast, having visions of ancient goddesses. I had visions of palm trees and blue lagoons and snorkelling under a tropic sky. We need leaders who can raise their sights to a contest between competing visions of the good society. These debates are driven by contrasting moral visions of the proper authority of teachers and the proper docility of students. The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads. During the last few months, I'd had visions of him running away, scared and shamed by my unnatural passion. It suggests that they had visions of '66, and were unprepared to accept anything less. But another part of him is excited to the point of unrealism by his own grand visions of a democratic revolution throughout the Middle East. The postwar visions of local communists were incompatible with his brand of democratic socialism. Implicit visions of human rights often lie at the heart of socio-political demands for empowerment. He talks at length about fantasy and space opera and the various visions of Utopia that permeate science-fiction. If secret societies and weird visions of the future are you cup of tea, drink up. Oh, yes, it was having a sweet old time dreaming visions of sugar-plums before we came along. I had visions of him going into a coma, though I'm sure he'd probably just throw up. When my new baby turned out to be a girl, I had visions of female warriorship for her future. I suddenly had visions of M serving them up for months on end topped with wholemeal flour. Show More Sentences When I was much younger, I had visions of cities in the sky, monorails, jet pack travel, houses that cleaned themselves and yes, flying cars. He had visions of managing a world-class superstar in the vein of Tom Jones. It's a delicate and yet demanding film, one that will reward the patient viewer with visions of beauty and despair. Public works immediately conjure up visions of roads and bridges that exist only on paper. Stoll writes by telling stories, creating visions of creative, messy, hands-on education being displaced by sterile virtual busywork. So here is yet another youngster with starry-eyed visions of winning a Grammy aka Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. She first exhibited stigmata during Easter of 1992, having previously received visions of Jesus. He read the visions of the Venerable Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, an eighteenth-century German stigmatist and mystic. The string players brought tremendous energy and concentration to the apocalyptic visions of the Allegretto. I had visions of him at a strip club, or asleep in front of the television. I'd entertained visions of matte black accessories, cherrywood paneling, and recessed lighting. They had ghastly visions of the boys in the hood heading for their neighborhoods next. I found that visions of ancestors were not secluded to a sweat lodge or ritual. I had visions of a fire extinguisher being hurled from the train, or a toilet being smashed up. I closed my eyes, and kept having visions of a baby with spinobifida, or down syndrome, or malformed body parts, or a cleft lip, and I got shaky. These were the people who reached deep into the well of Biblical language and imagery to express their visions of the present and the future. No doubt, such favourable visions of globalization pervade public opinion and political choices. And so these are two different visions of how you want to select a fair and impartial jury in a case. For many people it conjures up visions of log cabins, country farmhouses and Shaker style kitchens. The result is a farrago of contradictory ideas, with visions of patriarchs dueling with notions of upward-striving capitalists. Show More Sentences Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality? I was careful not to agitate too much, while visions of felted cushion covers danced before me. Perhaps it's because the present makes those old visions of the future look infantile and silly. The film breaks down idealized visions of family and religion, for in this house, they offer not consolation but despair. This discussion of Tolstoy focuses on the tension between monist and pluralist visions of the world and of history. On both sides of this divide reign fundamentally different, perhaps irreconcilable visions of man. Parents must be rushing to the talent agencies with visions of fame and money for their poppets. His head filled with visions of tender roast pork with crispy brown crackling, he set off down the street. I have visions of my wide self stuck in the doorway, arms full of groceries to put away and unable to move forrader or backwarder. I had visions of him crammed up at the car's front end from the impact, sealed into place by the fury of the rushing water. Romantic visions of harmony with nature are a dalliance, more than a practical reality. The story begins with accounts of the Ghost Dance, a religion that arose in 1888 from the visions of a Nevada Paiute named Wovoka. Dangerous times call for bold acts of empathy, prophetic visions of justice and mercy. I think I mentioned somewhere that delusions are visions of realities not yet activated. This is a beautiful metaphor that denotes visions of purity and unblemished perfection. Citing the idyllic visions of our ancient texts, he drew attention in that address to the deviations from the ideal. I left with visions of a future romance and an episode to be embalmed in words. I'm all sampling strings and accordions, almost to where it brings up visions of a pastoral French landscape. She rarely dreamed, but she did that night, fretful visions of tight-held jesses and the clipping of wings. I guess you already have lots of thoughts and visions of how your wedding day should be. Show More Sentences Politically, the Republican presidential candidates can be assessed on their various preferred visions of Reaganomics. I begin to have visions of the vest bulging awkwardly beneath my white alb. Called Bundu dia Kongo, the movement provided Muanda with ample opportunities to devise and propagate his own visions of the Kongo past. He plays Eddie, a paranoid man who lands himself in a mental hospital, driven wacky by relentless visions of alien abduction. Back in the golden days of the space age, artists were beavering away in studios all over America creating visions of the future. Scratching and yowling ensued, but I had these visions of grout and paws and stood firm. Or are these visions of the coming order consigned to replay moribund nightmares of the past. Creationism often conjures visions of religious zealots who believe the book of Genesis verbatim. In the first part the narrators reveal and analyze their own natures as well as their corrective visions of the world. I have visions of the plant leaping upon passers-by and forcing them to eat its fruit. My sleep is disturbed by visions of the apocalypse, with a kind of ridiculousness that wakes me. Our next study takes us to visions of Christ by the apostle Paul in which he received a severe rebuke from the heavenly Lord. Herzog is an uncompromising filmmaker whose works have, as their lynchpins, visions of surreal, breathtaking intensity. I do, however, have visions of him rocking up on my doorstep and that thought mostly horrifies me. At root, their differences reflected wildly divergent political perspectives, as well as contending visions of the future. I keep a waste paper bin next to the chair I sit on so I had visions of it having bounced off the arm of the chair and into the bin. I was a radio deejay for a time, so I have a strong aversion to anybody tampering with my visions of a real artist. I had visions of hearing the thrum of the tense bowstring as I unleashed an arrow at an archery target. We had terrible visions of savage marauders destroying sacred idols, throwing them around with vicious glee. On the other hand prophecy through visions of angels is low down on the scale. Show More Sentences Before Hitler's atrocities exposed the barbarous extremes of social engineering, eugenic views were regarded as radical visions of social reform. I have visions of modern man dying of thirst and exhaustion beside an antique pump for want of a simple bit of practical knowledge. It brings to mind starry-eyed visions of Julius Cohen, paleontologist, plumbing the secrets of the unknown. I have visions of his being arrested and incarcerated indefinitely by the Americans, or joining a fundamentalist Sunni sect. He portrayed visions of animal menageries, fairies, and devils, derived from fables and mythology. A shower helped, but even the monotonous beat of hot water couldn't drive out the visions of atrocities in his head. Also, hallucinogenic drugs, such as mescaline and LSD, are known to produce visions of striped tunnels and spiral chambers. However, she argues that it is reflective of the particular forms of male visions of sexuality and desire that are present in places like the Brazilian favelas. With visions of poisonous spiders and fanged monsters lurking in hollow trees creeping around in my brain, I tentatively put my hand into the hole. By excavating these ruins of information's past, the author hopes to gesture beyond totalizing visions of information society as knowledge-based utopia or Orwellian dystopia. The Hollywood novel's take on the relation between contemporaneity and tradition is more consistently comic and absurdist than the epic visions of modernism. With visions of making the shot of the tournament I clambered down and, opening the club face, attempted to lift the ball high up and back into play. As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season. But when we came home in January my daydreams became very morbid and I constantly had visions of David in great pain, screaming in agony and us being unable to help. For the purposes of this research, closed-ended questions with a restricted set of choices may not be the best means to explore economists' visions of the future. I had grand visions of dropping my obscure '80s post-punk gems on people, of sowing the seeds for '90s revivalism via some well placed selections. Did you entertain visions of being the Stanley to fawcett's Dr. Livingstone? And so it was that the federal government did not shut down just when we all had visions of sugar plumbs dancing in our heads. It evokes new millennium visions of robots clunking around in factories. In truth, the spaghettification of the motorway intersection had less to do with revolutionary visions of the future than the more mundane problem of land politics. Show More Sentences He is centrally concerned with how visions of national parks, aesthetic preferences, and views of appropriate nature-culture relations change over time. The notion of the South as a rural idyll begins with the Arcadian visions of artists such as Samuel Palmer and John Linnell, inspired by the Kent landscape. These Republicans still frighten voters with visions of an old age in poverty and frailty. When I think of Frankenstein, I have these visions of Robert De Niro in awful makeup. There was no sense in destroying their idealized visions of romance. I had visions of running over to the fresh bread counter, ripping the crust off a large bloomer and burying my face in the soft, warm expanse of white loaf. My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights. It's a theory of the self, combining postmodernist visions of subjectivity as constellations of effects in space with modernist concerns regarding time. Eating turkey and pie in their home districts, no doubt, snug by the fire as visions of spending cuts dance in their heads. You might have daydreamed for years about being your own boss, running your own business, having visions of chucking in the nine-to-five routine and doing your own thing. Through political protest, social movements capture the world's attention, thematize injustice, and articulate visions of freedom and equality beyond the bottom line. They offer complex visions of a young artist dead before his time, of a persecuted gay poet, and of a bon vivant felled by stroke. Why is our can-do country, tied at inception to the pursuit of happiness, so reliably interested in visions of its own demise? They have cataclysmic visions of what will happen to the world if Orestes escapes punishment, since there will be no justice to this matricidal murderer. For a lot of people this description of visions of snakes and animals and an enchanted forest really just sounds like a good old fashioned psychedelic experience. Far murkier is what did they believe they would accomplish, these modern-day kamikazes with their box-cutters, their commandeered jets and their insane visions of vengeance? When people think of building demolition, they almost invariably conjure up visions of spectacular implosions with large buildings collapsing in seconds. A much more interesting way of looking at the elites vs. battlers debate is to accept the premise that there are competing elites, and competing visions of the good society. Circling this orgy of nickel-and-dime excess were overhead murals that vaguely recalled the great outdoors with modernist visions of birds flying over mountaintops. We can entertain these divergent visions of the future because same-sex marriage was really a campaign, not a movement. Show More Sentences A time capsule containing the top visions of the future for 2062 was left behind. Finally, visions of postsuicide lawsuits may lurk menacingly in the minds of those clinically responsible for the patient. Elsewhere in the show, Bailey appeared to make explicit reference to the absurdist visions of Hannah Hoch and other Dadaists. As a vision, it has certain affinities to the prophetic visions of the Tanach and of the Book of Revelation. The Nexus 6 Replicants bring back to Earth visions of life on the colonies. The two visions of the state and the non-state groups for the future of Timor-Leste share a common, often strong undercurrent of millenarianism. One sip conjures visions of a pin-up girl, or sultry burlesque dancer. The visions of ubicomp are compelling, and from Weiser's perspective they are very human-centered. With a map, the knowledge to read it, and a little imagination, one can fill blustery winter days with visions of rivers yet unpaddled. This neoliberal criticism highlights the ongoing conflict between varying visions of economic development. Imagine a classic Caddy and the mind's eye conjures up visions of Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts. The clearest differences between the groups emerged over their proposed strategies for achieving their visions of socialism. His beady noggin had visions of floggens as he zeroed in on the new ackamarackus. Unlike these films, Belle Epoque plays with gender boundaries rather than continuing filmic visions of annihilative sexuality. Smaller minorities also have equally proud visions of themselves as irreducibly Welsh, Irish, Manx or Cornish. In recent years, visions of transnational racial polities have dominated. Today, we may name different gateway drugs, sexual fantasies or visions of wealth, fame and power, but they all still tempt us to indulge insatiable appetites. Constable's usual subjects, scenes of ordinary daily life, were unfashionable in an age that looked for more romantic visions of wild landscapes and ruins. He presents four visions of desktop factories and considers how hobbies can be industrialized, and generally adulates the virtues of entrepreneurial populism. Three days a month became a nonstop fuckathon. He'd had these visions of himself as an oil derrick made of flesh, pumping endlessly and joylessly away. Show More Sentences I'm haunted by visions of lurching towards pretty young things, their faces creased in a cocktail of shock and disdain, during the smoochy numbers at discos. The reason for this sudden ground swell of fine design is that Bhs has enlisted the creative visions of young British fashion guns Owen Gaster and Paul Frith. Here, by a dramatic contrast which one may call monstruous, the supernatural is far more forcibly put before us than by all the glories and the visions of the other painters. Examples from Classical Literature But with visions of four o'clock in the morning, the hour assigned us to begin our work, I returned to the bunkroom to go to bed. The contrast between the sad reality of life and the bright visions of Christmastide lend themselves to scenic effects. He had visions of scenes that he was impelled to paint and he suffered from clairaudient hallucinations. Then come the visions of delirium, ambitiously written, but without either myth or meaning, so far as we can discover. John the revelator was called into a high mountain to see the visions of the future. Under the thrall of the ghost dance, devotees dropped to earth insensible and had visions of the spirit-world. If visions of truth and beauty can exalt, visions of vice can debase and degrade. Do visions of plump cabbages and brilliant dahlias flit through their molluscous minds? And at these visions of theirs we have mocked, and held them for idle and vain, unreal and unaccomplishable. He fancied he was delirious, and had distempered visions of the food so long desired. O'Keefe was riding on that moonlit night at the gallop of bold dreams, and in his mind were visions of wedding and infare. If you have visions of seeing Phil chased over the back lot by any stepmother, you have another guess coming. And then visions of their happiness passed before his eyes, infuriating him. Antony had visions of the jealous husbanding of a few drops of hot moisture in a sunbaked leather bottle. It is Christmas week and the air is redolent with the suggestions of good things to come and visions of Kriss Kringle. Perhaps the summertime suggests to you thoughts of the country, visions of green fields and mountains and sparkling lakes. They had visions of a theocracy, and were impatient of an earthly king. And then followed visions of the increased comfort to come to the shanty. His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night. Doing so, Zafzaf offers visions of Moroccan culture and its traditions in an easygoing style that is well-nigh incomparable. Show More Sentences Dismal visions of cube root and compound proportion came to torment her. Slowly, very slowly, as these visions of the past animated his lethargic memory, he came to recognize them. I had had visions of a ship drifting in calms and swinging in light airs, with all her crew dying slowly about her decks. They are Little Englanders with visions of grandeur for England to regain its place on the world stage, isolated from Europe. He saw visions of the blacks taking charge of the plantation, looting the store, burning the buildings, and escaping to Malaita. She closed the piano and went up to her room, to dream away the hours luxuriously in visions of her married future. Mark Bridger, 48, told another prisoner he is tortured by visions of the five-year-old appearing in his jail cell at night. The third of Shelley's visions of perfection is the climax of Hellas. From his early youth, he delighted in the visions of the hermetic science. Vanstone, basking in golden visions of his young friend's future, echoed that monosyllabic decision with all his heart. With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. My dreams were terrifically disturbed by visions of the Angel of the Odd. Itll be a riot, said Flick, seeing visions of a golden shower. But the visions of Mrs Verloc lacked nobility and magnificence. There is to be no present fulfilment of these visions of millennial glory. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti. He sees penumbral visions of himself titubating fantastically through days and nights of space and stars. He had visions of command and dictatorship far beyond his own egoistical thoughts and waged a vendetta against all that was British. What sweet dreams, what visions of a life established on a basis of work! Lluch continues to pursue a novel argument by shattering the standard dualism that presents nationalist visions of sovereignty as either secessionist or non-secessionist. Show More Sentences March had one of his vague visions of ladies in cloudy crinolines and gentlemen in outlandish hats and whiskers revisiting that lost garden like ghosts. Instead of visions of sugarplums dancing in her head Milly dreams of ice-creams, gingerbread houses, leprechauns and teddy bears to chase the nightmares away. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrangements, and so forth. Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions of such a place. By the end of the first day I was having visions of sitting in that garden a white-baked old man, and being laid out, when my time should come, in Jerry's front room. Find more words! 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