Sentence examples for In the imperatives from inspiring English sources

The drummer Scott Amendola could fairly be described as a jazz musician with an investment in the imperatives of groove.

In these two pictures, the protagonists are imprisoned in the imperatives of character, exercising, they imagine, free will from moment to moment but governed at the same time by the sullen imprint of past crimes, injuries, mistakes.

As Benjamin scholar Max Pensky puts it: "The promise of eternal newness and unlimited progress encoded in the imperatives of technological change and the cycles of consumption now appear as their opposite, as primal history, the mythic compulsion toward endless repetition".

Thirtysomething Tom Kitchin is one of a crew of young cooks who learned their craft in London under the uncompromising stare of the great Gascon chef Pierre Koffmann; a man who was always less interested in prissy towers of ingredients and garnishes placed just so, than in the imperatives of flavour and of avoiding waste.

Further, commands inherent in the imperatives were often tempered by the politeness marker please and/or kindly: (21) Please send it to me via email of hard copies.

It is another personal reminder of the frailty of respect unless there is vigilance, another lesson in the imperatives that we all must act upon to expand and preserve the principles laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Let's write just in the imperative, or try the second person.

Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself.

"Coaches and fans yell their advice in the imperative mood without the subject (you) and without the object".

And that "enjoy", according to common English usage, is now very much an intransitive verb when used in the imperative.

Don't be fooled by the fact that they are written in the imperative tense (pick the basil leaves, peel the onion).