Sentence examples for being objects of from inspiring English sources

Note how mobile phones transformed India within a decade: from being objects of luxury, they became a basic necessity.

Rather than being objects of interpretation, Native Americans are collaborating on or leading the interpretation of their culture.

Sometimes his paintings appear to be "pictures" of things and places, and sometimes they have the appearance of being objects of some sort in their own right.

Gone are the days when Ms. Bernhard, prowling the stage with a flashlight, had patrons ducking in their seats to avoid being objects of her withering scrutiny.

Once they'd ceased being objects of obsession, their lives had sailed off the grid — something that they were unable to easily explain to other people, or even to themselves.

Meeting accusations that he was "aestheticising poverty and deprivation" through his work with Médécins sans Frontières in Somalia, he protested that the people he photographed, far from being objects of pity, were inherently graceful and exceptionally civilised in their relations with others.

We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings.

They are objects of ridicule.

They were objects of lust.

The temples were objects of special concern.

Scapegoats are objects of convenience.