Sentence examples for A classic instance of from inspiring English sources

A classic instance of this technique is the scene between the clown Peter and the household musicians in Romeo and Juliet (Act IV, scene 5).

A classic instance of his tenacity occurred some years ago when he was interviewed by the art critic Edward LuciEdwardh.

A classic instance of such propitiatory sacrifice occurs in Homer's Iliad (xxiii:175 177): 12 young Trojans were slaughtered and burned on the funeral pyre of the Greek hero Patroclus.

A classic instance of political imagination, indeed, is Burke's own Vindication of Natural Society, which presents as an alternative model of society an organization if that is the word devoid of civil government, church and significant private property.

A classic instance of this is the assertion, to become a cornerstone of logical empiricism, that relativity theory had shown the untenability of any "philosophy of the synthetic a priori", despite the fact that early works on relativity theory by both Reichenbach and Carnap were written from within that broad perspective.

(This is a classic instance of his deferring of responsibility.

The loose narrative framework encloses a number of independent tales, a classic instance being the famous "Widow of Ephesus" (Satyricon, ch. 111 112).

A classic instance is David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia," along with visual tours de force in the manner of "Star Wars," "2001" or "Apocalypse Now". And when it comes to roller-coaster rides or car chases, the wide screen is admittedly unmatched.

"Not every water body can support a bathing situation," a representative of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said last week, in a classic instance….

In this classic instance of blaming the victim, the fault lies with a failure of resolve; self-respect was just not strong enough to rise to the occasion in a positive way.

For instance, a classic example of a goal-directed behavior is the online computation of the probabilistic contingency between the presence of a stimulus, and receiving a reward.