Sentence examples for * slumber of from inspiring English sources

To be Chinese, then, is to live under enforced amnesia, a medicated slumber of propaganda.

That is a dream scenario that brightens the slumber of many a local political boss.

"If Osama bin Laden is sleeping, it is the restless slumber of someone who knows his days are numbered.

She emerges, after Orlando's strange slumber of several days, like a goddess floating on an Empyrean cloud, absolutely unclothed and indisputably female.

As global warming has climbed the political agenda, lawmakers have tried hard to rouse the nuclear industry from a slumber of decades.

The "Prague" Symphony, admittedly, never quite roused itself from a slumber of sweet strings; the winds were too much at a distance.

Today the music reminds the baby-boom generation of its youth, of sock hops and slumber parties, of transistor radios and tail fins, of good girls who said "no," the nice boys who took that for an answer, and the bad boys who didn't.

With the exception of "A slumber", all of the poems mention Lucy by name.

The television crime series Inspector Morse used the College in the episodes "Ghost in the Machine", under the name of 'Courtenay College', "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", "The Infernal Serpent", "Deadly Slumber", "Twilight of the Gods" and "Death is now My Neighbour", and in the one off follow on, Lewis, the Middle Common Room and Oriel Square were used.

These peculiar transitions were made possible by the recurrence of the pentatonic on different traditions; they were also enabled by 20 years of, in a sense, aural slumber, and of now beginning to recover, in a new but accidental way, what I'd long ago heard and cast aside.

In the past twenty-eight years, Naylor has written twenty-seven more books about Alice, tracking the strawberry-blond daydreamer from the slumber parties of elementary school (there are three prequels to "The Agony of Alice") through the emotional gauntlet of high school.