Sentence examples for he's driving at from inspiring English sources

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Still, there's no arguing that exactly what he's driving at here is often hard to divine.

For someone who writes opaque lyrics, what he's driving at – usually about isolation and loneliness, the pleasures and perils of living largely inside your head – invariably comes across.

I have no idea what he's driving at in this tune – "How every tongue that gets bit has another word to say?" – but I don't care.

Anyone who can work out what he's driving at in Suicide Demo for Kara Walker or the closing Bay of Pigs (Detail) probably deserves a small cash prize.

More often, however, working out exactly what he's driving at is like trying to grasp vapour, not least on I Mind: three minutes of incomprehensible vocal loops speeding up and slowing down, slipping in and out of time with the backing track, which unexpectedly shifts from the usual agonised crawl to a kind of pattering, vaguely Latin-American rhythm midway through.

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James Alex Fields Jr., 20, was charged with second-degree murder after police said the Challenger he was driving "at a high rate of speed" rear-ended another car and pushed vehicles into a crowd of pedestrians.

Time magazine unfairly accused him of doing little else but "organise a swing band, tinker with cameras, drive fast cars", though in fact the car he was driving at the time of his accident was a Fiat 500.

Another slightly revised edition came out in 1950, and then a "definitive" one in 1966, shortly before Breton's death - by which time people were beginning to see what he was driving at.

He was driving at 87 m.p.h., TT said.

"I thought about it ever since, trying to understand what he was driving at.

So he is hardly worried that his team -- finally, his team -- gets what he is driving at.

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