Sentence examples for as if containing from inspiring English sources

Yet it invisibly holds everything that you perceive or think about, as if containing the world that contains it.

The prelude began with aching, pregnant pauses between its phrases, but grew into a torrent of overwhelming passion, as if containing in microcosm the expressive dualities of the opera: night and day, love and death, reality and illusion.

Or the bare mortuary slabs in Show Me Your Wounds, stained like the Turin shroud, the boxes beneath filled with fat as if containing the essence of the departed.

In the new book, he recalls his "only extended meeting with John Updike," in the late nineteen-eighties, which allowed him to observe "those busy eyes of his, the set of the mouth (as if containing, with difficulty, a vast and mysterious euphoria), his turban-shaped hair still forcefully thriving, his hands on the tea tray so much firmer than my own".

The fire load in a typical home has doubled over the last 50 years, furnishings typically include those made of petrochemicals that can behave as if containing built-in accelerant, and modern energy-efficient buildings are less able to disperse heat in the event of a fire.

Moreover, the bilateral branches of the vagal motor nucleus appear more prominent, as if containing more cells than normal.

It should not have been difficult for me to speak, to say the usual "Good morning, Mama," but at times she seemed impenetrable, as if contained within an invisible structure.

Service users of AO teams live, work and socialize in the community as "free individuals" yet they remain subject to rules and restrictions as if contained in old fashioned asylums [ 18].

I had to seek it as if it was nowhere and as if it contained nothing — when in fact it was the palm of the hand that held me".

All of these codes enabled us to determine if the definitions provided in the textbooks were accurate, as well as if they contained "baseline" information and/or additional information about evolution.

Meanwhile, meat eating persists as a badge of masculinity, as if muscle contained a generous helping of testosterone, with the aggression required to slay a mammal working its way up the food chain.