Sentence examples for because it hits at from inspiring English sources
But light hitting the sloping sides is reflected as blue, because it hits at a shallower angle.
This particularly upset ardent imperialists because it hit at the moral justification for colonialism which believed that by working hard you came to own the land you had purloined.
But it weakened as it advanced and a predicted storm surge was avoided because it hit at low tide.
In that sense, this horrific attack, because it hit at the heart of Turkey's religious pluralism, could at least help heal those divides between Turkey's two sides. .
President Clinton has promised to veto the bill, in part because it hits hard at poor debtors and leaves loopholes for sophisticated ones.
"It's like a light switch going off, because it hits your brain all at once," he told CBS. "The trouble with theaters, it's dark, the lights flashing in there is more like a strobe light".
It won't surprise you to learn that this passage jumped out at me, at first because it hit my exact situation vis-à-vis cancer diagnoses, then because I realized I was suddenly one of "them," the left-a-little-less-lonely, the not-to-be-condescended-to. Another situational circumstance.
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Because it really hits your soul".
