Sentence examples for a feast instead of from inspiring English sources

In a debate with the University of Pittsburgh philosopher John McDowell, published in the journal Inquiry, Dreyfus tells us that whenever Homer describes his heroes at a feast, instead of having them deliberately reach for bread in baskets or bowls brimful to drink, "their arms shot out to the food lying ready before them".

Surprise your honey by having a full chocolate feast instead of the usual fare.

"This year the president should have said no". "Mugabe and his cronies are planning to feast instead of attending to the resuscitation of the comatose economy and addressing the effects and impact of the drought," said Obert Gutu, spokesman for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party.

Guests would be brought in front of a feast, but instead of sitting down to eat, they would watch as that banquet was destroyed in front of them.

On her return, finding her young husband Dumuzi feasting instead of mourning for her, Inanna was seized with jealousy and designated him that substitute.

Guests would be brought in to stand in front of a fully laid feast, but instead of sitting down to eat, they would watch as that banquet was destroyed in front of them.

The title of The Barmecide Feast refers to a story from the Arabian Nights in which a sultan hosts a feast with no food and asks his guests to imagine the feast instead.

Instead of pausing to produce a feast of handsome, arrow-shaped leaves, the plant races on up to maturity leaving only an unusable crop of creamish-green seed.

Trattoria Neapolis celebrates Christmas Eve with a "Feast of the Seven Cows" menu featuring  beef (instead of the traditional fish) dishes such as oxtail ravioli, beef carpaccio and panna cow-ta.

Instead, the organizers schedule a feast of tennis for the next day, known now as Manic Monday, which many consider to be the sport's best day of the year.

A feast of light and shadow: The movies of 50 years ago.