Sentence examples for capable of sitting from inspiring English sources

To me, the great importance of testimony is not to forget what people are capable of". Sitting opposite him here in Hampstead, meeting his eyes and hearing his voice, the idea of forgetting this extraordinary story seems impossible.

I mean, for instance, if a thing is capable of sitting and it is open to it to sit, there will be nothing impossible in its actually sitting; and similarly if it is capable of being moved or moving, or of standing or making to stand, or of being or coming to be, or of not being or not coming to be.

I don't think we're capable of sitting back and thinking something is going to happen.

But Henry was capable of sitting naked for two days in deep snow.

"I don't know why the mayor said I wasn't capable of sitting on the board, that I couldn't be objective.

Then, too, praise, as we have seen, is a way of gaining status over another by establishing the fact that one is capable of sitting in judgment.

Maybe then (in my 90s? late 80s?) all I'll be capable of is sitting in a chair and reading, and I'll catch up with all these old adventures and I'll be more forgiving of girl in its pages – the implacable, inescapable "I" of the diaries.

Woman in fancy chair seems physically capable of not sitting in fancy chair.

It seems strange that I would even need to convince my wife that I was capable of baby-sitting our child but that was the reality of our lives.

Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.

Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.