Sentence examples for holding experience from inspiring English sources

Athill often seems the consummate observer, holding experience at arm's length, and turning it to the light.

Then Adam could have had a safe, holding experience, one that he wouldn't have to continuously defend himself against by resisting attachment.

The main web we have for holding experience together, the novel suggests — for recreating a past in the present — is language itself, which in Ms. Smith's hands seems at times to be arbitrary and insubstantial: the stuff of jokes and puns, the airy lightness that keeps her little construct aloft.

Camp Bucca, a sprawling detention facility in the southern Iraqi desert near the Kuwaiti border where the majority of prisoners are held, experienced two large riots earlier this year.

Dewey emphasized the educational centrality of experience and held that experience is genuinely educational only when it leads to "growth".

Scott Mautz, marketing director for Charmin, said the object of the promotion was to "surprise and delight" fans who were expecting the breath-holding experience of using portable toilets.

The music and the message are tailored to ensure a positive on-hold experience.

They see the on-hold experience as an expression of brand identity, mixing music with a verbal message – which sounds closer to a radio advertisement than, say, an easy-listening jazz number.

However, one could hold that experiences are so structured (by attitude and content), while also holding that experiences have their contents in virtue of their connections to beliefs.

We are holding these experiences in our hearts and can't wait to unleash them on those planning to join us for the adventure in London this summer.

An implication of this formula, which is an integral equation, is that spiritual states are about balance, about holding conflicting experiences simultaneously, and about integration.