Sentence examples for a exercise in from inspiring English sources

The autumn collection was a exercise in this balance.

Seventh Son is a exercise in sword and sorcery cliché based on the first of 14 YA books in Joseph Delaney's Wardstone Chronicles series.

Reading The Aran Islands was, for me, a exercise in deja vu, or presque vu, or some "vu" the French don't have a phrase for yet, because there, surely, among the the girls Synge watches gathering seaweed, is Joyce's bird girl from Portrait of the Artist, with her skirts hoisted.

Says Casey, "considering that Start Engine is both a TV series and a exercise in media training and marketing, I would hope that founders would appreciate the value, and jump at the chance of having the birth of their new business documented".

But one thing I know is that trying to do it all is a exercise in futility.

A date is an exercise in adjustment.

Call it an exercise in recovering a willingness-to-believe.

Stopping at a gas station was an exercise in patience.

"This was an exercise in creating a medium," Blackford added.

A nuclear shelter is an exercise in architectural cynicism.

"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.