Sentence examples for directed descent from inspiring English sources

(Lugacy, who directed Descent, about a woman's elaborate, extended revenge on a rapist, believes guilt and boredom with our unphysical world both help explain the "torture trend" in movies).

Rather than falling straight down however, the wingless tropical ant glides backwards as it falls, steering itself in a directed descent that lands it on the trunk of the tree; from which it fell saving these insects from reaching the hostile and unfamiliar terrain of the forest floor.

might have been a relative but hadn't realized that she was of direct descent.

The natural path is direct descent from a parent — from one generation to the next.

Some, like the Lemba of South Africa, claim direct descent from the Jews of the Bible.

Those not stained by direct descent from a racist past distinguish themselves from those that are.

Some are "royal highnesses" with direct descent from King Abdul Aziz, while others are "highnesses" from less direct branches.

Experts on the royal family say dozens more claim direct descent, though few have been as public with their claims.

He even managed to make a case for the direct descent of Teutonic Germans from ancient Greeks.

Even the Coen brothers, whose film parades the most direct descent from the Odyssey, claim never to have read Homer at all.

What are called flight songs are generally done during a particular kind of slow, rising flight followed by a direct descent, and their function is uncertain.