Sentence examples for by transgressing from inspiring English sources

The only way a writer can participate in history is by transgressing this abstraction,through a process of reading-writing.

To maintain their self-respect, they often respond by being defiant, by transgressing certain norms, even in how they speak, dress, or style their hair.

Examples from the later 19th-century (Keller, Storm) and the 20th century (Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Döblin, Bachmann) demonstrate attempts to reformulate the fairy tale tradition by transgressing its boundaries.

"I do not know anyone in the history of Islam prior to Ayman al-Zawahiri who engaged in such lying, cheating, forgery, and betrayal of trust by transgressing against someone else's book," Fadl raged.

'I do not know anyone in the history of Islam prior to Ayman al-Zawahiri who engaged in such lying, cheating, forgery and betrayal of trust by transgressing against someone else's book,' the inflamed author told al-Hayat.

"I do not know anyone in the history of Islam prior to Ayman al-Zawahiri who engaged in such lying, cheating, forgery, and betrayal of trust by transgressing against someone else's book," the inflamed author told Al Hayat.

Portnoy's Complaint did not simply undermine our sense of what happiness is or might be--by transgressing bourgeois norms, underlining ambivalent notions of sexual respectability, and so forth.

Programmable video and computer stations would allow travelers to project their hopes and dreams onto side-by-side video walls, transgressing prohibitions on broadcasting across national boundaries.

"By confounding and transgressing the natural boundaries between generations, cloning could strain the social ties between them," it said.

It goes on to query the success of this attempt, arguing that Spirited Away undermines its overt agenda, ultimately expressing a culture beset by polluting and transgressing forces.

In a 1977 essay in The New York Review of Books, "The Sense of the Present," she remarked upon the disappearance of guilt from contemporary life and its replacement by paranoia among people transgressing against society's laws.