Sentence examples for ascent toward from inspiring English sources

St. Augustine, famously in the Confessions, described that experience as an ascent toward God.

Climate science, perhaps above all, has been a perpetual ascent toward understanding.

But there was also the kind of apprehension that steadily builds during the slow ascent toward the ride's first vertiginous dip.

Less understood is the role his wife, a 58-year-old poet, has played in molding his political vision and propelling his ascent toward the mayor's office.

Our ascent toward the campsite on Omtay Tso, the lake just beneath Tampe La, was a challenge for all but appeared particularly uncomfortable for Summer.

This ascent toward architecture guaranteed the seriousness of cooking, and helped move it from peasant lore to contagious classifications — toward fixed recipes.

The more cynical among us might wonder if many of these ascents toward ubiquity are not in fact preëngineered by corporations, but I don't think the global psyche is quite so easily cracked.

The ascent now moves toward an emotional climax.

But March's reversal is a painful reminder that nearly three years into the expansion, the recovery has been a climb toward the rim of the crater left by the Great Recession, not an ascent to new economic heights.

What most deeply differentiates Aristotle's conception of human life from that of Plato is the absence of the existential urgency that is so evident in Plato's account of the ascent of the soul toward the really real (to ontos on) and toward the Form of the Good.

Accordingly, all versions of Mr. Wooley's "Seven Storey Mountain" involve a sloughing off of conventional technique in favor of esoteric sounds, and a sensation of slow, steady ascent through mysterious terrain toward a distant peak.