Sentence examples for had removed us from inspiring English sources

If Copernicus had removed us from the center of our solar system and Darwin from the apex of the natural world, this was the final indignity.

This is because, until now, nothing has happened in my generation that has removed us from our solipsism.

Our prosperous lives leave us with fewer frustrations to take out on the helpless As prosperity makes us more comfortable, suffering becomes more horrible to us Prosperity has removed us from nature, allowing us to view wolves and lions in television documentaries as "cute" or "beautiful" rather than "life threatening" Increasing wealth has lowered the utility cost of theft.

It is a strange thing about Motion Studies that it is both wonderfully written and intellectually cloying: there are numerous mellifluous passages about time and how technology has removed us from nature, but they seem to be written more for the balance of the sentences than to expose careful insight.

5. Vocation of Suffering and Death Our modern, industrial society has removed us from death.

If Guadagnino had removed the sex, leaving us with nothing but its breathless prelude and the licked lips of its aftermath, we would have stumbled from the cinema in a headier and more delicious state of frustration.

Although a small minority, they represented a broader sentiment: as one employee (who had removed his tie) stated, "For us, it represented professionalism.

Rupert Murdoch had removed his jacket.

Nye had removed his bow tie.

Her father had removed the children.

Food and drink had removed her lipstick.