Sentence examples for great confluence from inspiring English sources

Or perhaps Lightman meant simply to write a novel that forcefully captures the great confluence of our times: information overload, unimaginable prosperity and spiritual bankruptcy.

Lightman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is "a highly original and imaginative thinker," Abraham Verghese wrote here in 2000, and he "forcefully captures the great confluence of our times: information overload, unimaginable prosperity and spiritual bankruptcy".

Besides offering a great confluence of buzz and celebrity, a career-advancing opportunity for young filmmakers, a meat market for agents-on-the-make, a bazaar for indie-film distributors and a stage for artiste poseurs and hustler manques, it is also regarded as the year's prime opportunity to take the pulse of American independent filmmaking.

"Overall there's a great confluence of thinking, within the U.S. and internationally, about Antarctica and Southern Ocean science priorities," says Chuck Kennicutt, an oceanographer at Texas A&M University in College Station, who is also a former president of SCAR.

Vero cells were seeded in 96-well plates at a density of 1 × 104 cells/well, and incubated at 37 °C in a 5%% CO2 atmosphere for 24 h, until 90%% or greater confluence of the monolayers was reached.

After 1 day in culture, both LEF2 and RK3E cells showed greater confluence compared to cells grown in 2 mM glucose alone.

How do you know to do that?" Mr. Oldman said he missed the era of George Smiley, the John le Carre spook he plays in his Oscar-nominated turn in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," because it was a time of greater cultural confluence – as evidenced by the rabid devotion to the original mini-series, broadcast in Britain in 1979, as early appointment television.

It was one of those neat confluences.

Sightseeing Cape May and neighboring Wildwood are a great contrast and confluence of styles.

There was a lot of blog chatter a while back in response to an article by the Village Voice's Sacha Frere-Jones about the lack of dialogue between black music and white, but in fact there is a great deal of confluence these days between the two worlds.

His arose from an unusual confluence: a great crime, a great silence, a receptive audience and personal courage well above the ordinary.