Sentence examples for an absolute break from inspiring English sources

But the mods were pioneers for the hippies, and had already declared an absolute break with their parents' values.

It marks an absolute break with the New Labour years, but it is not in every regard a return to the Tory years which came before.

Images and models of buildings by Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra and others led a generation of architects to make an absolute break with the styles of the past and embrace the tenets of modernism, chief among which was the idea that form should follow function.

"Now I had again come briefly in touch with life there and suddenly I realized that there was no absolute break, no complete separation," she wrote.

At this point it's tempting to think — and people do — that we're switching aesthetic worlds, from traditional to contemporary art, though no absolute break is evident.

"It represents the absolute break of the tradition from Monteverdi to early Stravinsky, whereby the interpreter has freedom to use gesture and rhetoric and passion to articulate, vary and embellish what's written down," Mr. Gardiner said.

But instead of omitting the tax-increase-for-millionaires provision from their bargaining position, President Obama and Congressional Democrats should make this an absolute deal-breaking position going forward.

An ill-advised acquisition, for instance, may boost earnings per share even as it causes the share price to fall.Lastly, moving from measuring a company's performance against its rivals to using an absolute yardstick breaks the link between exceptional performance and exceptional reward.

Describing the appeal of the sport, Meyer said: "There's something beautiful about man at his absolute breaking point.

The stillness was almost absolute, broken only by flocks of herons, egrets and African gray parrots spooked by the passing of our powerboat.

And that trust has been stretched to absolute breaking point since this time last year.