Sentence examples for earth abides from inspiring English sources
A decade before, George Stewart's haunting and award-winning work Earth Abides portrayed a world surreptitiously decimated by a cataclysmic pox that leaves only small pockets of humankind left to pick up the pieces.
The World Without Us applies a more ecological view to Earth Abides.
Still, despite these apocalyptic sensibilities, Earth Abides manages to present a tale of human dignity and resilient innovation in the midst of profound crisis.
Indeed, an extremely popular 1949 novel, Earth Abides, portrayed the breakdown of urban systems and structures after a pandemic, through the eyes of a survivor, who muses at the end of the first chapter: "What would happen to the world and its creatures without man?
I look into why the rate of violence has dropped, and the moral question -– what values ought we teach people to live by? Certainly, I agree with the principles, but it may be a bit unrealistic to think that every person on this Earth abides by a value such as that every life is equally sacrosanct.
I tried my best to follow the recommendation, one thing in, one thing out, but if there is really anyone on this earth who actually abides by that hogwash, I would love to meet her.
Elon Musk's ambition has finally found its limits: the billionaire technologist, who wants to banish petrol-driven cars from the earth with Tesla Motors while putting humanity on Mars with SpaceX, can't abide flying cars.
This meant that, while certain Igbo may have lived under different formal administration, all followers of the Igbo religion had to abide by the rules of the faith and obey its representative on earth, the eze Nri.
Will Keen brings a clenched, sepulchral quality to the part of Garcin, the self-incriminating Brazilian journalist and man of letters who cannot abide the acknowledgment in the afterlife that he is still being talked about on earth.
