Sentence examples for figure of reason from inspiring English sources

Then came his best work as a lead in movies: he was the divorced man in love with Petulia (1968), the movie that established his status as a figure of reason and caring beaten down by the chaos of rapid change.

Francois Hollande was able to pose as a figure of reason and a defender of freedom with a mind-bogglingly hypocritical bunch of VIP guests at last week's rally; this week his government has made dozens of arrests in crackdown down on "pro-terrorist" speech.

As it became clear that the ideals of the Revolution were not likely to be realized in his time, he renewed his efforts to revise his contemporaries' view of the universe and to construct a new mythology centred not in the God of the Bible but in Urizen, a repressive figure of reason and law whom he believed to be the deity actually worshipped by his contemporaries.

Virtually all his roles were figures of reason and dignity, like his priest in Cry the Beloved Country (1951), and his cameo as Simon of Cyrene in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

Chomsky, with his personal reserve, his quiet voice, and his astonishing mind, seemed to them a figure of pure reason, an instrument of truth.

The dual space representation of the problem of Figure 9 is described in the right-hand side of Figure 10 (the geometric description of the same problem is shown on the left-hand side of the same Figure, for reasons of convenience).

Retention was frequently reported as being a problem and a number of reasons, illustrated in Figure 2, were identified as being partly responsible for these difficulties.

Clients were prompted to go abroad for their desired procedure(s) for a number of reasons, summarized in Figure 2. One facilitator remarked: "We find that there are three classes of people who want to do medical tourism.

Traits for which less than 20 QTLs were detected, of least interest for the meta-QTL analysis, are not included in the figure for reasons of space.

This does not mean, however, that globalisation is an autonomous process: globalisation is influenced by many developments at the other levels, although these associations are not included in the Figure for reasons of simplification.

Eventual losses could turn out to be around $170 billion £866 billion) rather than the market-based figure of $380 billion.Another reason for greater confidence is that British banks are making more realistic assessments of their bad debts and raising capital.