Sentence examples for commentary upon from inspiring English sources
Beneath its apparent frivolity lay a satiric commentary upon Thatcherism and social Darwinism.
They appear to be a cumulative commentary upon various random events in the distant history of China.
Only its rock underscoring, at once filmic, integral to the action as well as a commentary upon it, communicates what comes close to a Shepard style.
Interspersed among these vignettes are the spirit's commentary upon them, and, at the story's close, the acknowledgment that "I'm only some kind of answer -- invented, dreamed into being?
Barthelme countered that a "mysterious shift... takes place as soon as one says that art is not about something but is something," when the literary text "becomes an object in the world rather than a commentary upon the world".
The photographs are intended to be a commentary upon the wider culture's fetish with thinness, Nimoy explained; he had a sister-in-law who was obese and died young.
The rabbinic tradition of the Pharisees (a Jewish sect that sanctioned the reinterpretation of the Mosaic Law) was established in the Mishna (commentaries) and later in the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmud (compendiums of commentaries upon the Torah and lore).
It can be divided into three categories: (1) sutras (terse maxims), (2) smritis (shorter or longer treatises in stanzas), and (3) nibandhas (digests of smriti verses from various quarters) and vrittis (commentaries upon individual continuous smritis).
In such later novels as Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), he chose characters not only because they were commonplace but also because the stories he told about them were commentaries upon society, government, and economics.
Both of their works are gnostic and mystical commentaries upon a wide range of philosophical problems.
Through out the ages, these verses have inspired a number of Muslim gnostics, some of whom, such as Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī (12th CE) and Mullā Ṣadrā (16th CE) have written commentaries upon them (e.g., Mullā Ṣadrā's On the Hermeneutics of the Light Verse of the Quran).
