Sentence examples for a sort of surrender from inspiring English sources

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Though acknowledging the risk, some of those who go guardless said a change would amount to a sort of surrender, carried out in the absence of any tangible threat.

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A: Sort of.

But this last year was marked by a sort of quiet final surrender by the film cadre: Arri, Panavision, and Aaton have all ceased production of film cameras.

But the poetry of "The Piano Lesson" — a sort of brilliant passivity, surrendering to an ineffable logic of paint and color — falls entirely outside Picasso's range.

Urban said she made her decision at the last moment and described it as a "sort of a moment of surrendering my divided thoughts".

Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.

Because of the lopsided numbers, Senator Norris argues that this would not be a surrender, a sort of "we're going out of business" declaration that can be achieved legally by a city referendum.

"I think that one of the structural problems that we face is that we blame poverty on the poor – the whole personal-irresponsibility narrative where we treat problems as unfortunate but inevitable – and we just sort of surrender," said Kristof.

Both optimism and pessimism seem to represent a sort of throwing up of the hands, a surrendering to the whims of fate.

And in embracing it, I was able to surrender to the book, letting its short, sharp prose jab at me and feeling a sort of numbness take hold.

"It's a sort of trance-like state – I don't mean running around boggle-eyed and dribbling, but a mix of control and complete surrender".

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