Sentence examples for dereliction as from inspiring English sources

There was no such protest about Mr Libeskind's glass-shards war museum in Manchester, because it sits amidst cleared industrial dereliction as, indeed, do all the new buildings on the Tyne.

It permits us to admit the sense of dereliction as well as the devotion that make up a human life in relationship with God.

I embraced my dereliction as a religious discipline; it was as if I were a monk sworn to an order devoted to affirming God's original world.

We feel and pity their starving dereliction as, despite the profound challenge to the imaginative contemporary novelist, McCarthy completely achieves this physical and metaphysical hell for us.

The show has come to rely on his ranting dereliction as a kind of dramatic prop, a lifeless symbol of continuity, like Ena Sharples's hairnet.

AC disapproves of these anti-abortion doctors who fail to refer women for abortion, and even those who "fail to engage" - he calls this "disgraceful" and "a dereliction" - just as fiercely as they disapprove of abortion; what he, and they, should do, is tolerate those with opposing views, and tolerate their consequent actions.

RESIDENTS trying to save the school -- closed in 1991 because of declining enrollment and now slipping toward dereliction even as an adjoining field house and the relatively vast playing fields provide for village recreation -- have attracted outside support from preservationists.

But now there's just England, half of a green island in the northern seas, lashed by rain, scarred by two centuries of vicious industrialization fallen into dereliction, ruined, as D. H. Lawrence thought, by "the tragedy of ugliness," its abominable architecture.

She sympathised with their dilemma, but had little respect for what she saw as the dereliction of their duty as scientists, however dutiful they were as government officials.

If lawmakers are allowed to short-change education funding, then "dereliction of duty" might as well be assigned to voters, and even more so to non-voters.

Army investigators concluded that eight soldiers, all of whose identities were redacted, "committed the offense of dereliction of duty, when as guards detailed to secure and protect detainees, they willfully failed to perform their duties with no reasonable or just excuse, by jokingly pointing weapons at the bound detainees, and exposed photographs of this unwarranted activity".