Sentence examples for conform itself from inspiring English sources

Howells' fiction, however, reveals little instinctive belief that merit will in fact be crowned with success and that the real world must conform itself to the ideal.

It's these ideas — rather than his extraordinarily insightful remarks about particular compositions — that unite Hawke and Bernstein, and this is where Hawke's approach to his film seems to conform itself sanctimoniously to Bernstein's thinking.

It's these ideas rather than his extraordinarily insightful remarks about particular compositions that unite Hawke and Bernstein, and this is where Hawke's approach to his film seems to conform itself sanctimoniously to Bernstein's thinking.

In that world of his, in the ideal world, to which the real world must finally conform itself, I dwelt among the shows of things, but under a Providence that governed all things to a good end, and where neither wealth nor birth could avail against virtue or right.

These are all sound points, and that column probably overstated the case against system-building when what I really meant to do was make the case against becoming trapped by a system or an ideology or a grand strategy in a world that doesn't always conform itself to academic theory.

The traditional approach takes various forms (Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Orthodox Jewish) but its instincts are creedal, confessional, dogmatic; it believes in a specific revelation, a specific authority and a specific holy book, and seeks to conform itself to teachings handed down from the religious past.

'Conforming itself to that rule, the complainant would not, in the assertion or proof of its cause of action, bring up a single Federal question.

The Air Kukini ($89.99) by Nike, a laceless running sneaker that made its debut in April, is made of a stretchy blue Lycra that conforms itself to the shape of the foot and resembles the reflection of water in a swimming pool.

But [when] functioning with thinking imagination conforms itself to things while discriminating one condition from another".

Thus, Kant argues, a rational will, insofar as it is rational, is a will conforming itself to those laws valid for any rational will.

He writes, speaking of imagination, "When sensible things are not present, it [imagination] conforms itself to things in a confused way and without discriminating one condition from another.