Sentence examples for former sense from inspiring English sources

In fact, I consider myself somewhat of a conservative in the former sense of the world.

Expressions such as "a painful death" and "a lingering death" show how often the word is used in the former sense.

In the former sense, American society was more open to talent than England or the rest of Europe, where hereditary bloodlines were essential credentials for entry into public life.

Coleman writes about his former sense of music having an architectural structure, whether modernist block or soaring gothic nave; what he has been left with is more akin to a designer's technical drawing: flat and uninspired.

In his essay "Bottom's Dream: The Likeness of Poems and Jokes," Howard Nemerov notes that poetry and jokes both find "fault in this world's smooth façade," and they do so with an "economy of materials," a "sudden reversal of the relations of the elements," and "an apparent absurdity [which], introduced into the context of the former sense, makes a new and deeper sense".

But for some there is also anxiety about the unknown and the fear of losing a special place, of losing their former sense of lovely isolation, of losing a neighborhood whose charm came in part from the very oddity of its location in a financial district.

The former makes sense by definition.

Untrue married the former's sense of scale with the latter's fleetness of foot, adding a sadness that was unique to Bevan.

Now that its denizens have been moved out in the name of "regeneration", and 4,398 new homes are moving in, what happens to former residents' sense of community?

The former makes sense for Gelug because the appearance arises from causal conditions, and whatever arises from the causal conditions is a non-eternal or non-permanent.

If we were to read the former, weaker sense of the possibility of motivation into this second premise, we get the claim that a rational, or perhaps virtuous, version of the agent would only be motivated to act in some way if the actual agent has some actual desire that could produce that motivation.