Sentence examples for ceased to be aware from inspiring English sources
"For a whole month in which off-duty time had been impossible, I had ceased to be aware of the visible world of the French countryside; my eyes had seen nothing but the wards and the dying, the dirt and dried blood, the obscene wounds of mangled men and the lotions and lint with which I had dressed them".
Unlike a public square or a marketplace, the theatre brings strangers together in the dark, with multitudes at their backs, while all are hoping to be so transfixed by the events onscreen or onstage that they cease to be aware of the presence of the other spectators.
Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs…and we will cease to be aware of the things".
And yet too often we overlook our own culpability, not just in failing to defend our freedoms but in allowing ourselves to be so distracted by our entertainment culture that we cease to be aware of or even care much about what happens in the world beyond the TV screen.
As Marcel describes it: "it can happen that the mind, yielding to a sort of fascination, ceases to be aware of these prior conditions that justify abstraction and deceives itself about the nature of what is, in itself, nothing more than a method" (Marcel 1962b, p. 156).
The poem begins in a descriptive rather than narrative manner, and it is not until the line "When Lucy ceased to be" that the reader is made aware that the subject of the verse has died.
I'm well aware that I long ago ceased to be the target audience for potential visitors to the park, and it also occurs to me that I'm becoming more of a curmudgeon as I grow older.
