Sentence examples for grounding things from inspiring English sources

As in the first two Bascombe books, events unfold over a public holiday ('Americans are hardwired for something to be thankful for. Our national spirit thrives on invented gratitude,' observes Frank), grounding things in locality and family.

"The best way to explain it was that I was wandering psychologically in my studio trying to figure out some grounding things to continue working," she told me.

In the second episode, she's offered a job by the head of the NYPD cybercrimes unit (Melanie Nicholls-King, from "The Wire," grounding things for a minute), which she hesitates to take because "people like me don't work for people like you". But it wouldn't be the worst thing for the show to become "CSI: Cyber," tweaked in style and subject for the youth demo.

"It's the more grounded things that make an impression," says Phillips.

'Here we are, this is it, this is what we're doing.' And if I'm not grounded, things go off in the wrong direction".

Mathew Horne's steely turn as Jon Moss grounded things nicely; a little of Mark Gatiss's rather grotesque Malcolm McLaren went a long way.

She really doesn't have patience for this whole being grounded thing.

In order for this to work, it has to be a real and grounded thing that you can connect with.

On the ground, things were not quite so composed.

On the ground, things didn't change, except for the worse.

However, once Taipei 101 started to rise from the ground, things changed.