Sentence examples for began as though from inspiring English sources

"It looks like she has leaky membranes; what causes that?" he began, as though he were a senior attending physician and I were a medical student on rounds.

Italy began as though inspired by the sight of nearly 400 of its former players, presented with commemorative caps before the kickoff, massed behind it during a rousing rendition of its national anthem.

Because I began as a novelist (though I've only published two; Ghost Quartet and Rivers Last Longer) my stories tend to be somewhat novelistic.

Floor debate on the Pentagon budget could begin as soon as Wednesday, though votes are not expected until Friday.

Bach's St Matthew Passion begins as though it has already begun.

The other one I like is "Avatar," which begins: As though you could tell This nut from her shell.

In one, the pair of actors trained their focus on the audience members, instructing them to begin, as though they were the ones expected to provide the entertainment.

Some attempts are over nanoseconds after they begin, as though the athlete got the barbell an inch off the ground and thought, Oh, you've got to be kidding.

It's reflected in some wondrous ways: many of the domestic settings, like Elijah Muhammad's home, with the living room furniture wrapped in plastic covers, begin as though captured for photographs, and then come to life as the characters start to speak.

The Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon's Caprice for Orchestra No 1 begins as though a very clever and voluble friend is entering the room, already talking to others, and while you don't know what the conversation is about or where it is heading, you just have to try to catch up.

When he compares the Father to a statue of infinite magnitude and the Son to a smaller statue accommodated to our perceptions, he begins as though the visible were a metaphor for the invisible, but ends by quoting Philippians 2.7 on the manifestation of Christ in the form of a slave (Princ. 1.2.6).