Sentence examples for committed to a kind from inspiring English sources

She pretends to be much healthier than she is — she gives "a tremendous performance of being alive," in Garner's savage phrase — and is committed to a kind of social fraudulence that saddens and then gradually enrages her host.

Is Guo, then, committed to a kind of thoroughgoing fatalism?

The reports indicate that Democritus was committed to a kind of enlightened hedonism, in which the good was held to be an internal state of mind rather than something external to it.

But, on plausible assumptions, it still has the untoward consequence that the meta-ontologist cannot herself assert that a theory is ontologically committed to a kind K without being committed to kinds.

This account is purely extensional: if a theory is committed to a kind K, and K′ has exactly the same members as K, then the theory is also committed to kind K′.

In his reply, Croce (1952) argues that Dewey is too wedded to empiricism and pragmatism and that it is only because Dewey, contrary to his own claims, is committed to a kind of dualism, that he cannot understand Croce's identification of intuition and expression or recognize how similar Croce's view is to his own.

The panelists, from Philadelphia, seemed surprisingly committed to a kinder, gentler way of managing protest movements like Occupy and Black Lives Matter.

"The Loneliest Planet," the second fictional feature directed by Julia Loktev, is rigorously committed to a particular kind of minimalism.

Mr. Godinez and the others, then, the emerging portrait of them indicates, wound up more committed to a different kind of violent routine.

"Banshee," Cinemax: "Banshee" committed to a well-defined kind of pulpy, noir storytelling right out of the gate, and it satisfyingly honed that bruised vision during the fast-paced run of its first season.

Unless we are willing to become a society that turns away people from the emergency room and leave them to die of serious but not life-threatening ailments, then we are already committed to a certain amount and kind of government spending, so does it not at least make sense to rationalize this system and provide care in a more affordable and productive manner?