Sentence examples for dwells for from inspiring English sources

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." (1971-74), dwells for a short eternity on a hyper-luminous chord of A major.

A later sequence, devoted to various forms of transportation, dwells for a long time on slow-motion footage of a jumbo jet taxiing on a tarmac.

Freed from narrative responsibility, the camera dwells for rather too long on images of under-nourished children amusing themselves in joyless playgrounds or hanging listlessly around the estate.

Compressing the action into a fast-paced ninety minutes, Sean Tyler's adaptation never dwells for long on the story's main themes — urban male restlessness, the limits of endurance, survival anxiety — which is probably for the best.

The resulting feeling of tonal movement gives a direction and forward thrust to the piece until it finally reaches the dominant key (a fifth above the tonic and the tonality with the strongest, most compulsive relationship to the tonic), where it dwells for a time before it finally goes back "home" to the tonic.

Lévy at one point dwells, for example, on the Parisian trend for "idiot dinners", which apparently are fashionable among the city's intelligentsia each time his dire film is repeated on French TV, where "the idiots are the film and its author".

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She had dwelled for years on what she had lost.

Let us dwell for a moment on the bright side.

Dwell for a moment on these passages and the idea of Nishkam Karma-yoga.

He does dwell for a while on the suffering of young Nathan, McClennan's victim.

But let's dwell for a moment on the good news.

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