Sentence examples for a fine instance of from inspiring English sources

Olivia Laing's To the River (Canongate) is a fine instance of the new school of landscape-writing pioneered by Robert Macfarlane, vividly charting a slice of Sussex.

But it's also interesting as a fine instance of a strikingly newish kind of thing: the serious and even scholarly biography of a much gossiped-over pop figure, where the old Kitty Kelley-style scandal-sheet bio is turned into a properly documented and footnoted study that nonetheless trades on, or at least doesn't exclude, the sensational bits.

The drought is a fine instance of the argument that just because you can buy something – in this case, as much water as you like, even with penalty pricing – doesn't mean you should.

And so another fine instance of British bathos bites the dust.

Sex is "just a hug in motion," he silently protests, "a bloodless piece of body friction," one of the novel's many fine instances of Haig's wit.

Design purists tend to regard his 1932-33 Zigzag chair, for instance, as a finer example of reductionism.

Such a proposal adopts a fine-grained GPU instance of matrix-free iterative solver for structural analysis and an efficient GPU implementation for isosurface extraction and volume fraction calculation.

Like the disappearing breast-feeders, if faced with a huge fine for allowing an instance of hate speech on its network, social networks would be more likely to "delete first and ask questions later" since deleting content in the first place (whether incorrectly or not) is a lot cheaper than getting the legal position wrong, and hence fined.

Wonga was told it must not send such letters again or it would face a fine of up to £50,000 for every instance of it breaking the rule.

Wonga has now been told it must not send such letters again and could face a fine of up to £50,000 for every instance of it breaking the rule.

VIOLENCE -- In other hands (Wes Craven's, for instance), the snowplow would make a fine engine of death and destruction.