Sentence examples for but a mode from inspiring English sources
The effect of Martin's art is not an exercise in overarching style but a mode of moment-to-moment being.
Still, Krasnow does get at something that the other discontented-wives books don't: that marriage does not provide happiness (though it can often provide an environment in which to experience happiness), and that it is not an exhilarating private journey of self-discovery but a mode of living in the social world.
She disposed of her critics with a dazzling apothegm — "The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction" — and went on to contend that history itself "is but a mode of imagining, of making us see civilizations that no longer appear upon the earth".
This idea that living in and through movies is not a solitary neurosis but a mode of communion is made gloriously literal by Mr. Bertolucci's use of archival clips -- of Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, of Robert Bresson's "Mouchette" and Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor," among many others.
And a relation, according to Le Grand, "…is nothing else but a mode of our understanding, comparing one thing with others, because of some properties or acts that are found in them" (1694, p. 17).
There are glimpses of his usual wit, but in a mode more aleatoric than logical.
Among the tools she might have "unconsciously absorbed" from "The Baltimore Waltz," Ms. Ruhl writes, are Ms. Vogel's "modern architecture for grief" and "how language itself can be a source of solace but also a mode of alienation".
But as a mode of theatre-going the sheer effort required in investing in multiple disconnected narratives can take its toll – not least because intensity is integral to the form and back-to-back intensity can pall.
Mr. Hall has given Oliver, the most innately cerebral of the bunch, not only the complete arc of a story line but also a mode of self-expression that seems specific to him.
Contradictory negation is not a one-place operator taking propositions into propositions, but rather a mode of predication, a way of combining subjects with predicates: a given predicate can be either affirmed or denied of a given subject.
Being one with Dao does not describe any mystical union with a divine source or sacred power, but reflects a mode of being that accords with the assumed original nature marked by natural goodness and the absence of excessive desire.
