Sentence examples for end of sleep from inspiring English sources

The End of Sleep, by Rowan Somerville (Norton; $23.95).

At the other end of sleep are hypnopompic hallucinations, seen with open eyes, upon first waking.

At the McKittrick, before the set, there was time to catch the end of "Sleep No More," the nightmare-funhouse "Macbeth" spectacle.

Mr Somerville (pictured), whose first book, "The End of Sleep", was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' prize just a year ago, has come up trumps.

You have prisoners beaten until they are on the verge of death, or hooked to overhead manacles like something out of the Inquisition, or forced to defecate on themselves, or sexually humiliated, or driven crazy by days on end of sleep deprivation and blinding lights and blaring noises, or water-boarded.

Sleep period time: time from sleep onset to end of sleep.

At the end of "Sleeping Beauty," with my daughter asleep on my lap, I was remembering stories about World War II I'd heard from my elderly neighbors and grandparents during my British childhood.

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That is, dreams are involved in the ending of sleep, in part by ceasing to provide the impulse discharge that threatens to awaken the sleeper.

In a fascinating short book "24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep," which came out last June, the culture critic Jonathan Crary writes that capitalism continually corrodes the value of sleep, positing "continuous functioning" as the ideal and pushing us to pursue "mastery" over the need to stop and rest.

It isn't mentioned in Jonathan Crary's fascinating new book 24/7: Late Capitalism And The Ends Of Sleep, but I suspect he'd regard it with both horror and a sense of vindication, since it's the perfect metaphor for his argument.