Sentence examples for as if one from inspiring English sources

One respondent puts it as: If one component of the system fails the entire system fails.

"One feels as if one is on vacation on a permanent basis," he said.

Why bother ranking them one and two, as if one need be seen as better than the other?

I always say the principle of direct action is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free".

"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free".

(As if one needed an invitation).

As if one could really answer that question.

As if one inevitably followed from the other.

As if one should open out and spill, again.

They rose as if one and chorused - bayed - his name.

He wanted, he said, "to paint things as if one had never seen them before, as if one had come from another planet".