Sentence examples for as a helpful goad from inspiring English sources

Sometimes her abbreviation served as a helpful goad, urging me to glimpse ambiguity and bifurcation where I'd initially seen only straightforwardness.

Far from serving as a helpful goad, the question of EU entry, both for Cyprus and for Turkey itself, is causing further ill feeling (see article): Turkey, with no prospect of early admission, is furious at the thought of the Greek-run bit of Cyprus being taken in.

Apple had the helpful goad of desperation.

Hopefully, this will serve as a helpful memory jogger.

Even the more ample ones would most likely not fit, but Ms. Alley picks a skimpy white chiffon number and hangs it up, as much a goad as a goal.

Some biographers point to Roosevelt's rejection as a goad that helped propel him from a callow undergraduate to a four-term President.

"They will act as a goad and a spur to improvement in neighbouring schools," he said.

We need to be aware of these things, and use them as a precautionary goad.

Only then can advertising's role as a specific goad to sales and a general cultural encouragement toward materialism be viewed in its proper context.

CME credits are required to maintain medical licensure, and thus serve as a potent goad.

The beauty of ancient wisdom traditions is that they act as a distant goad to clear thinking in impossibly complex contemporary circumstances.