Sentence examples for gives itself over from inspiring English sources

And so the novel, which began in the thrilling passion of youth, gradually gives itself over to "the dense tangled stasis of adult life".

On the outer edges of Riverside, life gives itself over to the desert.

What any audience that gives itself over to this talented team should sense, though, is the group's sustained theatrical discipline and energy.

And, let us hope, it is a sign (Amitai Etzioni's bracing 2007 book "Security First" is another) that the American left is developing wisdom and a governing sensibility, even as the right gives itself over to juvenile radicalism.

"Most of the other festivals have an imported audience, but here you have a major metropolis that just gives itself over to the festival in a way that is really unprecedented".

Giants are set to roam the streets of Liverpool as the city gives itself over to Royal de Luxe's Memories of August 1914.

This is not too surprising: rarely has a film given itself over so completely to allowing its subject (and its real-life subject at that) to define and embody every detail.

The company is giving itself over entirely to 13 consecutive productions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical (not, admittedly, one of the duo's greatest hits, but enjoyable nonetheless) with a starry cast of a decidedly nonoperatic bent.

But after a while you realise you're not in the realm of psychology at all, but of allegory (and if you don't, a nudge or two from the narrator - "it seemed to me that America, too, was increasingly giving itself over to a dangerous nostalgia" - soon sets you straight).

Not that we don't reserve the right to occasionally take a pass on any of these shows, but today, FNS has given itself over completely to NFL synergy, which we decline to watch.

What Isherwood and Kamp seem to be wallowing in is the reality that Broadway has done everything it possibly could to survive -- to the point of giving itself over to a younger generation's ideas, sounds and wishes -- and ultimately failed time and again.