Sentence examples for feel beset from inspiring English sources

With Bolaño you rarely feel beset by monotony.

Some believers feel beset by an intolerant secularism that punishes public signs of Christian belief.

More and more youngsters "feel beset on their campuses" by college campaigns against Israeli government policies.

If these concerns sound scattered, it is because Beck's followers feel beset from many sides — political, racial, religious.

On the other hand, they are too modest and piecemeal to address the root causes of the frustrations which ministers feel beset them or to lead to the kind of transformational change that many believe that the Civil Service needs.

Because we live in such disturbed times, because we feel beset by almost daily acts of heinous terror that seemingly move ever closer to home, because the world, never easier to travel, appears an increasingly dangerous place, we fear the worst.

Stalked by a cackling young couple, kin to her late husband, who hope for her death and her lakeside house, Tula (Ann-Margret) feels beset.

Haiti feels rudderless, beset by ad hocery because there is no clear leadership.

Poor Tony couldn't dare wear anything comely, not even his boa or the Antitois' red leather coat, not since that poor woman's bag had turned out to have a heart inside.* He had simply never felt so beset and overcome on all sides as on the black July day when it fell to his lot to boost a beating heart.

I don't doubt that there are members of the separatists that genuinely feel like a beset upon minority.

Hermidas Bavand, a Tehran-based academic, says that just as revolutionaries in Russia and China took fright when their ideas stopped resonating with the people, those in Iran think that their survival depends on making Iranians feel surrounded, isolated and beset by foes.