Sentence examples for cannot behold from inspiring English sources

The difficulty is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and you cannot behold a politician's face without a veil of extraneous prejudice getting in the way.

In fact, after a romp through their carefully presented Christmas and New Year highlights, I have reached the point where I cannot even behold a single one of their images without imagining it captioned #ohgodisthisit?

In an era when we have the ability to cure more patients and prolong high-quality life for those we cannot cure, it beholds us to make sure that our treatment does not create unnecessary morbidity and mortality.

One of them, Vasari writes, is a lutenist painted "with a leg drawn up and his instrument resting upon it, and with the hands touching the strings in the act of running over them, an ear intent on the harmony, the head upraised, and the mouth slightly open, in such a way that whoever beholds him cannot persuade himself that he should not also hear the voice".

And you shall not ask of Me anything about which you cannot have any knowledge: thus, behold, do I admonish you lest you should be of the ignorant.

The entropy that we find too brutal, too savage to behold, is the entropy we cannot escape in waking or in dreams.

Poor Mr Hague is sure that Mr Blair is vulnerable on Europe, but cannot land a glove on him.Tory perplexity is a pleasant thing for Mr Blair to behold.

But behold!

Behold Joan Collins!

Behold, ye sensibly fleeced.

Behold the bounding ovibus.