Sentence examples for failing sense from inspiring English sources

And I'm going to stay that way until June 4, when my failing sense of self control will walk me into a Sprint store and purchase a HTC EVO.

Added with the increasing pressure of the perception of his failing sense of reality, fact checks, connection to the "average person," Saturn persists in maintaining hard line.

"What if...," "I have a feeling that... .. and "Something tells me... .. are largely a figment of the imagination of a psychological self that simply strives to safeguard a failing sense of self-worth.

Her delineation of Vera's frustration at the hands that no longer stay steady, the failing senses and the words vanishing from her grasp is both unsentimental and heartbreaking.

Vera's pragmatic humor about her failing senses is utterly without self-pity, and she indulges only in the occasional confession or reflection, most amusingly during a scene in which Leo and Vera watch the sunset while getting high together and find themselves talking frankly about sex.

Most of these methods have some disadvantages, such as failing to sense motor coordination rather than endurance and as the sensitivity of the method is low, more animals are needed to obtain statistically significant results.

He was not alone in failing to sense this conflict between "evangelical" trust in the Bible and the Pelagian tendencies (tendencies to emphasize self-generated spiritual enlightenment rather than grace) implied by the Neoplatonic tradition that underlay nearly all of the prisca theologia.

Early records of Buddhist presence in China depict the arrival of this foreign religion as at once intriguing and unsettling a confrontation with cultural difference, not as an objectively observable fact, but as a subjectively troubling experience of failing common sense (Sakai 1997).

She can also feel, in characters like the 287-year-old Aunt Esther, Wilson's never-failing sense of humour.

A woman of great beauty, sharp intellect, keen curiosity, strong opinions, and a never-failing sense of humor, she had a gift for gathering friends and connecting people in circles of caring and sharing.

Failing (especially failing BIG) provides you with a sense of freedom that you can never gain by playing it safe.