Sentence examples for define a place from inspiring English sources

It strikes me that it's much harder to illuminate the everyday lives that define a place than the extreme ones that we – as image makers and image consumers – are vicariously drawn to.

Even though Eastwood sketches an us-against-them struggle between those who defend that idea of society and those who turn that idea against itself, he also draws together, with a brisk and light touch, tight bonds of interconnection, of community, that define a place and a time.

It's impossible to look at one item to define a place.

It needs to define a place for itself in a globalised world where notions of tradition and heritage give way to the pace of a borderless market.

They got on very well immediately, and Dawson defined a place for himself.

The New York skyline defines a place, they say, but also the identities of the people who inhabit it.

The old idea is that wilderness defines a place out there, an amplitude of emptiness that can easily accommodate the human imperative.

And preserving history and historic sites, even some of the most universal historic sites such as burial grounds, is an important part of what defines a place.

The ADA defines a "place of public accommodation" as a facility whose operations affect commerce and that falls within the 12 types of establishments identified by Congress in the ADA.

He formally implements this idea by defining a place selection as 'the selection of a partial sequence in such a way that we decide whether an element should or should not be included without making use of the [value] of the element' (von Mises 1957: 25).

The stories of communitas that Edie recounted in her writing not only defined a place of togetherness but also the nebulous space between things.