Sentence examples for I cannot look on from inspiring English sources

(S he refuses to accept the poet's humble statement "I cannot look on thee" – a reference to the Old Testament idea that to see God's glory directly is death.

When dissecting, I cannot look on the cadaver as if it was a dummy.

I suppose I was both arrogant and devious.And indeed I cannot look back on my past life without somesense of my innate superiority.

Now I cannot look back on pictures of myself at that weight without extreme pain at how sick and skinny I was.

You cannot look on one side, you must look on both sides.

Till this day, when I see her on TV, I cannot look at her face".

I understand Pham Thuy Huong of Hanoi, who wrote on Facebook, "I cannot look at his face". I listen to Kerrey and think also of Bui Van Vat, a 65-year-old grandfather whose throat was slit, survivors said.

"I cannot look taxpayers in NSW in the eye, I cannot look other public housing tenants in the eye and I cannot look the 57,000 people on the waiting list in the eye when we preside over such an unfair distribution of subsidies," Goward said.

I cannot look at a daffodil without thinking of her.

It's true that Leonora's mother rejects her, but Edward's situation is at least as tragic; he has no parents at all, and yet he is not "possessed by a demon", as even Leonora herself believes – "I am, I am". The daughter of a selfish, pleasure-seeking woman, she cannot look on her own reflection.

Berlin's mayor said his city – which was split by the Berlin Wall during the cold war from 1961-89 – "cannot look on without comment when a country plans to build a new wall".