Sentence examples for Dimly apprehended from inspiring English sources

Though his novels often turn on sudden shocks, the real power of his prose lies in its slow accumulation of energy around dimly apprehended points of tension.

The atmosphere of medieval Antwerp can still be dimly apprehended in the foggy, cobbled streets and high gabled houses near the seafront; but nobody at the local tourist office has any idea where the "English House" was.

Much of the work by persons born in South Africa was limited in its viewpoint; often these writers only dimly apprehended the aspirations, perceptions, and traditions of South Africans belonging to a people other than their own.

Ursula carries within her a vague, dimly apprehended sense of other, semi-lived lives, inexpressible except as impetuous actions – such as when she pushes a housemaid down the stairs to save her from a more terrible ending.

In whatever warp of time the Montagnard villagers were living, my time was surely the leading edge of the modern world, time collapsed, time accelerating, time directed by forces only dimly apprehended but the effect invariably ambiguous and inconclusive.

With ingenious symmetry, Self's alternating chapters show how shakily new civilizations are built atop the bones and ghosts of the past, never really progressing, each caught up in its own "centrifugal strivings". Yet each era calls out to others, throwing out hints of its existence that are only dimly apprehended.

She was born in Bath into relatively comfortable surroundings four years before the Second World War began; she was of an age to dimly apprehend the traumatic upheaval taking place, and old enough to have had, by 1945, a sense of the precarious and momentous times she had lived through.

Greek geographical knowledge contemporaneous with the composition of the Odyssey being presumably confined within very narrow limits, the frontiers of the known are soon passed, and the poet launches out into a realm not of invention, but of reality dimly and imperfectly apprehended — a world of hearsay and travellers' tales, no doubt adorned in the Homeric poem with the colours of poetry.

All these speakers seemed to be referring to a cultural misery apprehended only recently, and then dimly.

One person was apprehended.

The suspect was apprehended.