Sentence examples for controllable world from inspiring English sources

Whatever he dreams of, be it "the big mountains where the rain lives" or "the desert, where there is no rain," he always goes back to the real, more controllable world.

Now the water is murkier, with the less controllable world of social media playing a crucial role in galvanising a fanbase into streaming songs, watching videos and showing off their loyalty, with sites such as Billboard running online competitions to find out "Whose Army is the Strongest?".

Mr Tetlock suggests that "we believe in experts in the same way that our ancestors believe in oracles; we want to believe in a controllable world and we have a flawed understanding of the laws of chance".* "Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice?

By using some of the same technologies used to make the movies, we have been inventing systems for interaction that bring the richness and serendipity of real materials into the controllable world of digital tools.

The difficulty can be summed up rather quickly: When women are trying to make an inherently uncontrollable world controllable, we are doomed to feeling inadequate.

Build a transmitter into a dongle or a case, throw together a user-customizable remote application for sharing control layouts and codes, and bam! You've got a remote for every controllable device in the world, in your pocket at all times.

On the other hand, in a fantasy the world is controllable.

Besides, the television and the computer, which provide a controllable connection to the world, are powerful tethers to home.

Almost every game with an explorable world and a controllable character has taken something from it.

With the crisis behind it, Goma has become Goma again, which means a desperate city struggling to survive a seemingly endless war, some of the bleakest poverty Africa knows and outbreaks of diseases considered controllable in most of the world.

It's possible to construct an ideology, and I've occasionally tried to, in which you combine the notion of the world as not controllable with the notion that you're still going to act decisively.