Sentence examples for draw it nearer from inspiring English sources

I don't talk about my fears, because I believe that verbalising what truly scares me will draw it nearer.

47 They also believed that attempting to predict one's future and end of life would ultimately draw it nearer, which Con suggests points to the need to ask culturally sensitive questions about end of life without explicitly revealing that their purpose is that of advance-care planning.

Draw it near the top of the page.

As we came to the shore, uncle tied the boat to a tree and then, getting out, drew it near and got us both out and carried us to the level.

Something like this Kriegschmerz used to happen to many men not in immediate terror for their lives when the war they were immersed in drew near its close — it infects even the hilariously frayed and confused British staff chaps in Evelyn Waugh's biting Second World War trilogy "Men at Arms".

My turn is drawing nearer and nearer.

He teaches us — and we absorb the lesson uneasily — that truth, like some vision that recedes as we draw near it, will never quite yield to our most ardent pursuit.

"We are serving our troops because of what we know, not who we know," declares the 30-second spot, which is running in Washington, Houston and several other cities. "We expect that this focus and these allegations will continue and possibly intensify as the 2004 elections draw near," it adds with understandable prescience.

As the midterm elections draw near, it is becoming increasingly clear that control of the Senate, where the Democrats have a one-vote margin, may hinge on what happens in a few closely contested, sparsely populated states where regional concerns outweigh big issues like the economy, taxes, corporate malfeasance and even Iraq.

On 3 August Dainty sighted a large ship heading directly towards them and as it drew nearer, its enormous size became apparent.

"After this week," Luce wrote in 1923 as Time's debut drew near, "it's head-on either to glory or perdition".