Sentence examples for forbear for from inspiring English sources

The most obvious aesthetic forbear for the "Hello Happiness" ad is perhaps the iconic 1971 ad "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke," for which Coke gathered hundreds of teenagers of various ethnicities on a hillside in Italy, at the height of the Cold War, to sing an anthem about bringing harmony to the world by — what else? — serving it a carbonated beverage.

Our earliest forbears, for all the privations of their hunter/gatherer existence, clearly did not see it as frivolous to represent their experiences on the caves of Altamira or Chauvet (the subject of the recent Werner Herzog film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams).

Barry D. Wood is a Washington writer whose forbears fought for the union in the Civil War.

It's a little weird to hear them suggest that it's just TOO MUCH for the administration to work on health care when their advice on the banking crisis is to "forbear" and wait for everything to work itself out.

"Was he a forbear of expressive use of colour?

Cabinet members suggested an amendment, urging "those emancipated, to forbear from tumult".

If one thinks perceptively and carefully about what to pursue (or shun) and do (or forbear from), one can readily understand and assent to practical propositions such as that life and health, knowledge, and harmony with other people are desirable for oneself and anyone else.

Any genuine difference of opinion over the value of the mud requires disagreement over whether there are reasons of the right kind for desiring it: the sort of reasons that bear on evaluative judgment, as opposed to reasons to have or forbear from having the evaluative attitude (Rabinowicz and Rönnow-Rasmussen 2004).

Why would the settler in the Brazilian jungle forbear from cutting down his patch to create fields so he can grow and sell soy beans and cattle for burgers at McDonald's?

Forbear from pulling at fingers to crack the joints.

For example, William Shakespeare's epitaph reads "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here.