Sentence examples for a mode of a from inspiring English sources

He notes that in Cartesian terms, as distance is a mode, it can only exist as a mode of a substance.

As Descartes puts it in the Principles, everything "which can be attributed to body presupposes extension, and is merely a mode of an extended thing," and so, "…shape is unintelligible except in an extended thing…" (AT VIIIA 25; CSM I 210).

On the other hand, something like "omniscience" is only a mode of an attribute, since it is only said of God when he is conceived through, or considered under, the attribute of Thought.

A line of verse can be a mode of strangulation or it can be a mode of liberation, a weapon.

Fast fashion is at once a mode of production, a strategy and a style.

They develop a voice, they find a mode of expression.

Rather it was a mode of analysis, a doorway to understanding modern thought and culture.

It's a mode of perception, an attitude, an ethos: in short, it is a practice".

Cycling is popular, but perhaps more as a sport than a mode of travel.

They began, as a mode of protest, to represent Ireland as a woman.

Can we then single out a faculty, an attitude, a mode of judgment, or a form of experience that is distinctively aesthetic?