Sentence examples for exterior things from inspiring English sources

"I see completely intelligent people around me who have invested everything in exterior things, in success, and little by little it's made them frigid".

And yet things from the same cultural epoch, however much they alter in outward form, always resemble one another more than they resemble other, exterior things that they may be imitating.

It is the same as when Baudelaire described "the daily metamorphosis of exterior things," only instead of the changing shape of bustle skirts, as the pouf derrière became wider in the 1870s and more decorative in the 1880s, the photographers document the exaggerated round shoulders of a Comme des Garçons coat in the 2010s.

Boethius goes on to say that, whereas all proper, intrinsic predications about God are substantial, extrinsic, improper predications about him are not: they do not concern what either God or his creatures are, but are rather about exterior things.

Based on Descartes's conception of matter, and his consequent discovery of the true nature of sensible qualities, Desgabets concluded that our perception of sensible qualities and sensible objects does not constitute knowledge of the true state of exterior things.

Just the concept of measuring yourself against yourself, and that being the ultimate gauge of where you are, rather than measuring against exterior things.

Evil is not an exterior thing.

Behind the confident exterior, however, things were starting to run out of control.

It is a point that Pitt, ironically, recognises: "I find this truly insidiously damaging, this focus on exterior beauty, things, clothes, cars".

But inside the humble exterior, wondrous things are happening.

Our sight is pre-programmed to graze the exterior of things in our ample range of perception.