Sentence examples for a seizing of from inspiring English sources

More familiar in a time of zippy anomie is Donald Barthelme's definition of style: "Both a response to constraint and a seizing of opportunity".

These are brilliant, challenging sequences and in fact his whole film is an audacious leap into real lives and real experiences: it is a seizing of normality.

It is easy to see this memoir as a seizing of filial advantage, a way of getting in the last word (finally!), of speaking for as well as about his father.

He allowed the sun to break through briefly when the woodwind sang their warm chorale at the start of the third movement but there was much heart-searching to do before we finally reached the broad landscape of the "joy" theme, Brahms's conscious tribute to Beethoven and a seizing of his laurels, taking the symphonic form in a new direction.

This line stood out to me in its new setting, it took me back to the space between those library shelves; hit me as something like the essence of rock'n'roll: a seizing of the day, a celebration of now, of life and the body, the world and the moment – "everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes," as Cummings once wrote.

If Netanyahu's rule is characterized by a seizing of the base and then an appeal to the center, almost as an afterthought, some of his potential replacements — such as Kahlon — may attempt to rule from the center first and only then cater to the right.

The deadliest of these actions was a revolutionary theocracy's seizing of power in Iran.

"There is no evidence of a seizing up in lending.

That could aid in determining whether a seized amount of plutonium represented only part of a larger cache.

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Is Ukraine next based on recent reports of a seized Crimea-based Ukrainian airbase?