Sentence examples similar to descend someone from inspiring English sources

Why get in a car and descend on someone else in the name of Richard Curtis?

"We're all descended from someone named Aunt Molly," he said.

And sometimes a reverent hush descends as someone sings solo in unaccompanied sean-nos (old-style) songs.

She made a point of noting that, to belong to her organization, one must be "descended from someone who was on the correct side in the American Revolution".

She traced the connection to Mr. Cheney's maternal grandmother who, as it turned out, is also descended from someone named Cheney.

At the end of the last season, Negan's bat descended on someone's head as they cowered in the nighttime dirt of a clearing backlit by headlights.

Enormous and immediate apologies to Wendy Cope for that, but when you descend to stealing someone else's love poetry to express how you're feeling about a videogame character, you know you're in trouble.

What begins as an ordered and contemplative attempt to remember someone descends into a desperation and panic to hold onto a true memory.

The reality is that gay people are very well aware of the consequences of the Holocaust, for obvious reasons, and when someone descends to this level of rhetoric it suggests they don't think they have very powerful arguments to rely on.

The name of both a type of loose-fitting breeches (knickerbockers) and an ice cream (a knickerbocker glory), on its first appearance in English the word knickerbocker was a nickname for someone descended from the original Dutch settlers of New York.

Totally fake, not-real, personal examples there, which I use only to illustrate how quickly innocently snooping on someone can descend into a shame spiral.