Sentence examples for as a sort of challenge from inspiring English sources
She watches "Phineas and Ferb" aspirationally, as a sort of challenge to herself.
In this he empathizes with his 6-year-old daughter, Lyra, who, at a friend's urging, tuned into "Phineas and Ferb," a TV show that she doesn't fully get but watches "aspirationally, as a sort of challenge to herself".
Ballmer took this reply as a sort of challenge.
Frank and Paul presented the new marijuana laws as a sort of challenge to "those who disagree with us," noting opponents "should welcome the opportunity to put their theories to a test".
Instead, the participants took the restriction as a sort of theatrical challenge, rolling into balls on the ground, leaning on each other, and resting in other ways that don't literally involve lying on the ground.
They work most successfully not as politicians, but as a sort of broad-ranging challenge to satire.
In interviews, he has spoken of this 9/11 novel as a sort of obligation, a challenge to him as a New Yorker and an artist.
I am always on the lookout for discarded paintings and antique prints that look like backdrops for something missing as a sort of ongoing conceptual challenge.
Does she think of Hit-Girl, who is played by the 13-year-old actress Chloe Moretz, as a sort of hardcore mini-feminist, a challenge to the usual assumption that most movie violence is carried out by adult men? "Yeah... she's a feminist hero by token of the fact that she pays no attention to gender stereotypes.
Rerouting 275,000 daily passengers through the streets, sidewalks, and waterways of New York City has presented itself as a sort of once-in-a-lifetime challenge to those willing to face it head on.
