Sentence examples for he turned upon from inspiring English sources

The general culture that he received there made him equally at home in reading the Greek and Latin classics, in obtaining what he wanted and needed from the science of his day, and in acquiring a beginning in the career of philosophy, to which he turned upon graduation.

And it flashed into flame when he turned upon Labour's Ken Macintosh who had accused the Finance Secretary of a "pass the buck" budget.

That the reader just about accepts the comparison is testament to the coruscating acuity of Safran Foer's prose, the withering and unblinking gaze he turns upon a relationship gone sour.

So moviegoers ate up Mr. Serpico's no-good-deed-goes-unpunished story in which he learns about widespread police corruption, reports it and soon finds himself in danger, turned upon by his fellow officers.

At least this one didn't see you turned upon by both a scrawny Burberry Boy and the hideous shrill female companion he was threatening to hit.

This turns upon the treatment of a sinner like Wilde himself.

In 2007 he turned straight upon his release from prison and a year later founded his own non-denominational Christian ministry.

Instead of enjoying their hard-won success, however, they turned upon one another, the situation exacerbated when Karn's girlfriend moved in with Sylvian.

The movie concludes with an upbeat ending in which she turns upon the self-deceiving upholders of bourgeois morality.

Most outrageously, he turned his refrigerating gaze upon a fundamental cynosure of meaning in art: the painter's brushstroke, which comprehends the world in a gesture.

He turned his gaze down upon his fork, as if debating whether to rise to the challenge of lifting it to his mouth.