Sentence examples for anything actual from inspiring English sources

They didn't actually do anything, actual practicing sort of these techniques.

It has also been maintained, by the English philosopher Sir Peter Strawson and others, that, for propositions with subjects that do not have anything actual corresponding to them such as "The present king of France is wise" (assuming that France has no king) or "All John's children are asleep" (assuming that John has no children)—the question of truth or falsity "does not arise".

But let me note that Landsburg's latest unfortunate intervention follows a well-trodden path: that of starting from the proposition that Keynesians are themselves really, really stupid — a proposition argued not by pointing to anything actual Keynesians say, but instead by presenting a caricature that supposedly is what Keynesians believe.

Normal conditions is unproblematic since UNICORN does not refer (to anything actual).

From the limitations of our knowledge of ourselves (or, for that matter, of anything actual existing) together with the less plausible assumption that "that everything actual must be thought to be actual by some thinking being," Mendelssohn infers that there is "an infinite intellect" that does represent everything to itself (Morning Hours, pp. 103f/Gesammelte Schriften 3/2, pp. 141ff).

No thought is given to long-term anything: actual costs, avoided costs, or benefits.

It's a real challenge for a punk rocker to generate anything resembling actual shock nowadays.

"It is so central to the Lopez brand, too, that it is so offensive no one bothered to see if they were stealing anything from actual professional artists".

"If you're not in charge of anything" — no actual school systems, that is — "and you speak for the President, it matters that he's closer to the President than anybody else in the Cabinet".

Tarantino, in his cinema-centric skein of references, suggests precisely the lack of confidence that he's filming anything like actual experience — even though the ardent righteousness of the movie's emotional affect suggests that he's filming something close to his thoughts and feelings.

Little Edie's ingenious scarves (constructed of anything but actual scarves) and her insane makeshift skirts (ditto), to say nothing of her incessant singing and her flag-waving Yankee-Doodle-Dandy dance in the hallway, make her something of a female drag queen and, indeed, within months of the movie's release, every drag act in America had worked up some Edie-related material.