Sentence examples for by her lights from inspiring English sources

Nor was she political, by her lights.

By her lights, such laws were far too lenient.

The reference was to Muslims who were, by her lights, insufficiently militant.

(She has taught Melville, Dickinson, Thoreau and Whitman -- the Transcendentalists compose the great American tradition, by her lights).

To her, the leading mapmak- ers are more than just one-dimensional avatars of entrenched power, and she is sympathetic to them when, by her lights, they are trying to behave well.

She does little to disguise her deep distaste for the Bloomberg era, when, by her lights, the ranks of the poor surged to unconscionable levels ("that's not sustainable" she said), gentrification brought a commoditized sameness to once quirky neighborhoods ("we are losing our communities," she worries) and New York City venerated its swelling class of ultrarich.

We rarely see her dancing in R&B videos: she has been replaced as the love interest by her light-skinned or white sisters.

His shadow, cast by her light behind him, was thin and went along the floor and up the wall, and it was seeing the shadow that made him turn around.

The book, whose language borrows from 19th-century Gothic novels, traces the story of its narrator, who endures life as a slave on a North Carolina plantation and, aided by her light complexion, successfully escapes to the North.

"I always double my money," Ms. Crockett said in a phone interview from her home, barely distracted by her light-brown cat, Panama, which sat beside her crouched on a Three Stooges mouse pad.

Young, beautiful, with deep blue-black skin and a career in the cosmetics industry, she was rejected as a child by her light-skinned mother, Sweetness, who's been poisoned by that strain of color and class anxiety still present in black communities.