Sentence examples for giving a shape from inspiring English sources

His title comes from TS Eliot's 1923 essay "Ulysses, Order and Myth", in which the poet argued that James Joyce's "mythical method", his means of deploying Homer's Odyssey, represented "a step toward making the modern world possible for art"; "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history".

This will give a shape like an upside-down tombstone.

I am able to give a shape to my problems".

— It'll give a shape to your day, she said.

I think it was the desire to give a shape my emotions.

"It gives a shape like rocks," she said, "As if he's sitting in a den, like a prophet".

It wasn't till Coleridge encountered the concentrated and unshakeable ambitions of Wordsworth that he found a writer whose influence could give a shape to his career.

But it does more than that: it gives a shape to a process that we then might easily take for granted: can brains be "washed"?

This edition has the feel of an autobiography, and it has been sensibly divided into subsections that give a shape to the life.

That love and her father's devotion were recollections that cheered Miss Nightingale's current solitude and somehow gave a shape to her life.

According to participant [25], books are quite important that give a shape to one's mind; however, even official books are not written scientifically.