Sentence examples for allow us to escape from inspiring English sources
If Jimmy Grimble is about the grim realities of childhood, it is also about the stories we tell ourselves that allow us to escape.
Alas, when he comes home for Christmas, disaster ensues – especially since most of us know that our hometowns will never allow us to escape who we once were.
"Acutely aware of our mortal condition," he writes, "I find books that simply allow us to escape existence a staggering waste of time (literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it)." If there were such a thing as a quintessentially Shieldsian pronouncement, this may be it, with its odd tonal mixture of the bombastic and the beseeching.
Games allow us to escape from the chaos of life into states of order.
Against this backdrop Hobbes claims that practices that allow us to escape this condition are 'Laws of Nature', i.e., mandates of rational self-interest, and that keeping promises is one of those practices (Lev. xv: 100 ff).
There are times when sports don't allow us to escape reality, and one of those happened Thursday night.
But I understand the argument that cash is a more socially inclusive form of payment and allows us to escape the grasp of "big data" when we use money.
And only the policies of Vladimir Putin, by some miracle, allowed us to escape it".
A Quiet Adjustment requires us to share Annabella's puzzlement at her husband's behaviour towards her and hardly allows us to escape it.
Yet the grinding dissonances that underpin the melodic rapture at every turn are a reminder of the often repellent narrative, from which Strauss never allows us to escape.
It allowed us to escape our urban identity and for a brief while enter another kind of life that left its mark on what we know and who we are.
