Sentence examples for ascribed to it from inspiring English sources

In Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), the psychologist Dr. Krokowski gives a lecture on the phallus impudicus: And Dr. Krokowski had spoken about one fungus, famous since classical antiquity for its form and the powers ascribed to it -- a morel, its Latin name ending in the adjective impudicus, its form reminiscent of love, and its odor, of death.

The dominant meaning ascribed to it in public and political discourses determines its future.

These include the specific phenomenon the phase is concerned with, its relation to the unfolding field, and values ascribed to it.

That was the basic scenario that I first got hooked on, and then characters got ascribed to it".

Before the late 19th century in the US, breakfast didn't have any particular importance ascribed to it.

"It's not a question that we don't think abortion has the moral weight that is ascribed to it," the official said.

It is the SNP's fabled white paper on independence – a document so portentous that already magical powers have been ascribed to it.

Mr. Oppenheimer denied that once it was a private company, De Beers would retreat further into secretiveness, a trait frequently ascribed to it by critics.

"It's an opportunity of responsibility and so I take it as a new job and not the kind of celebrity that I think is often ascribed to it".

Several specialists in election law questioned whether the language in the law concerning bailouts could bear the interpretation the court ascribed to it.

Marxist theorist Theodor Adorno summed it up when he observed: "The familiarity of a piece is a surrogate for the quality ascribed to it.