Sentence examples for broken pitcher from inspiring English sources

"A Dead Child is a sight no more surprizing than a broken Pitcher," Cotton Mather preached, in a sermon called "Right Thoughts in Sad Hours".

In March 1808 Kleist's one-act comedy in verse, Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Pitcher), was unsuccessfully produced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar.

"The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher," he wrote shortly before the earlobe incident, "so much more am I an artist".

Plays such as The Broken Pitcher (1807) attracted the attention of Goethe, but their relationship deteriorated after Von Kleist produced the anti-Napoleonic play Die Hermannsschlacht (1808).

"The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher," Vincent van Gogh, the quintessential suffering artist, wrote, "so much more am I an artist, a creative artist".

Goethe endeavoured to maintain Weimar's cultural position by looking for a successor to Schiller as principal dramatist but failed to appreciate the genius of Heinrich von Kleist, whose comedy Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Pitcher) he produced in 1808.

"Pitchers break down, pitchers get hurt and we certainly are not second-guessing ourselves".

Apparently the theory is, if you sign enough broken down pitchers who once had it going and just one rebounds, that's a no-lose signing.

Three-run homers can break a pitcher's spirit.

After she's caught her breath, Dolores breaks a pitcher on his head.

Although cold air hinders the ability to grip a baseball and spin breaking balls, pitchers on the mound at least stay moving on every play.