Sentence examples for engender was from inspiring English sources

The only thing I wanted to engender was a sense of embarrassment.

What it didn't engender was joy — the near-laughter at visual inventions that are so extravagant as to seem borderline ridiculous and that, at the same time, actually pack a new idea.

The spirit of exchange — and the trust it helped to engender — was gone.

He prefers closed forms, and the intimate, often claustrophobic experience they engender is enhanced in a gallery space.

The slight smugness this can engender is one of the things the gridlocked motorist so hates about us.

Some critics say the notion of wolves restoring Yellowstone by dint of the terror they engender is a great story that has captured people's imagination.

Digital communications, he argues, have their place, but the "quick response" they engender is separate and opposed to the "slow reflection" required by complex texts.

The truth seems to be that for many, fellow parents or not, the companionate affection that domestic life may engender is no substitute for the flush of passion.

Unfortunately, the rich stew of emotion that such a transaction would engender is tossed out with a couple of brief passages of exposition.

Any whiff of independence that the group might have hoped to engender is now certainly gone.

And in some instances, those expectations and the parental behavior they engender are actually disabling for the student.