Sentence examples for In passing time from inspiring English sources

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Bob delighted in passing time with family and friends, singing on the player piano and debating policy, books and ideas.

But it is also bittersweet, undercut by the present-day closure of public libraries, and the grim knowledge that reading, and writing, may only serve in "passing time that passes anyway".

Contemporary French writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet in Jealousy (1957), Nathalie Sarraute in Tropisms (1939) and The Planetarium (1959), and Michel Butor in Passing Time (1957) and Degrees (1960) wish mainly to remove the pathetic fallacy from fiction, in which the universe, which is indifferent to man, is made to throw back radar reflections of man's own emotions.

If Mr Weston thinks his deadly dark wine is good for human beings, it's because only creatures that live in passing time can know moments of undying value.

Learning to watch your thoughts in this impersonal way gradually teaches you what can be discovered in no other way: just as the hands of a clock can only go around and around, so it holds true for the level of mind always frantically searching for highest possibilities in passing time.

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If in school make sure to find a good time to talk to them (never talk to them in pass time or you'll be late to class).

You should also pay attention to increased statements about being tired, fatigued and feeling low in energy with little interest shown in pass time activities that were previously enjoyed.

Here, he depicts a woman lost in thought, passing time with the help of hard alcohol and a cigarette.

The Times spent a week recently in Reynosa, passing time with and talking to a dozen residents, to learn how they cope under cartel rule.

Just gazing at a man passing time in his car suddenly feels fraught with danger.

In another hand by passing time to 10 h uniform nanobars were seen (Fig. 4d).

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