Sentence examples for and descent from inspiring English sources

When he painted, it was descent and descent and descent from the cross, and when he died the sepulchre was simple.

It's a portrait of one man's simultaneous ascent (to drug lord) and descent (into moral depravity).

Its step design is believed to be a metaphor of ascent and descent.

The larger team had shorter stages individually, but the same overall ascent and descent to cover.

The ascent and descent of Eliot Spitzer's career have been dizzying.

Things are slightly more encouraging in the theatres which show Catherine Yass's films, Flight and Descent.

The collapse of industry and descent into civil war have left people longing for old certainties.

Polygyny was permitted, and descent, succession, and inheritance followed the male line.

The climb and descent took more than nine hours in all and, exhausted, we all slept well that night.

It is easy to make out moving traffic patterns and the ascent and descent of elevators in a skyscraper.

This might be partly my fault, since I described the book detailing a "breakdown of society" and "descent from civilisation".