Sentence examples for a disturbed world from inspiring English sources

Looking back on his life, Busner, who never did stop believing that "mental illnesses were creations quite as much as inflictions," concludes that the post-encephalitic condition is indeed an existential phenomenology, that its symptoms express the pathologies of a disturbed world.

In January 1948, The New Yorker printed "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," a watertight story about a disturbed World War II veteran who commits suicide while on vacation with his wife.

He added that "we live in a disturbed world", perhaps still struggling to understand how Jack Warner – the suspended president of Concacaf who is under investigation for allegedly trying corruptly to persuade some of his members to back Mohamed Bin Hammam in the election – had earlier written a letter to his members saying back Blatter.

Such brotherhoods, which lived the ideal Christian life as it was understood at the time, were islands of civilization in a very much disturbed world.

My belief in Britain's membership of the European Union remains as firm as ever and I think the political and economic case is made even stronger in today's globalised economy and dangerously disturbed world.

The following year, a Mexican man disturbed the world with his 18.9 inch, two-pound dick, which he said was so bulky it lost him jobs and kept him from being able to "kneel in church and pray".

In the ghettos of Callao, which lies to the west of the country's capital, Lima, Enriquez explored a world disturbed by violence, disadvantage, and struggle; a world where children endure poverty, drugs, and crime.

Home for a few days will be this world without telephones or TV, a world disturbed only by the voice of the wind, the rush of the river and the song of birds.

The volume ends, fittingly, with two closing fantasies of "a world disturbed": Noah's Flood and the linguistic fragmentation of the Tower of Babel, the latter modeled, in the European imagination, on travelers' accounts of the minaret of the Great Mosque at Samarra in Iraq.

India's underground nuclear tests last week disturbed the world's peace in a way that other non-nuclear military maneuvers never could.

Simon Winder's The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond is published by Picador.