Sentence examples for impressive passages from inspiring English sources

Rhetorically there were some impressive passages relating to equality of opportunity and tackling discrimination (though they sit uneasily with his record in government).

Early on in the novel, Gibbons blithely informs the reader that like Baedeker, she will use a system of asterisks to mark out particularly impressive passages.

Indignation, joy, weariness, sweetness: human beings have felt these emotions before, and their prior expressions well up gorgeously in Gregerson's most impressive passages: Jason had the misfortune to suffer misfortune the third of July.

The most impressive passages in the book are the closest to tragedy, though it becomes clear that a new life can open up on the far side of disgrace.

His most successful verse anthems frequently make use of short, impressive passages for choir alone, as in the evocation of the turtle's voice in My beloved spake and the moving harmonies of "O worship the Lord" toward the end of O sing unto the Lord.

It must have been by chance that he chose the most impressive passages, the most solemnly ecstatic, the ones about, 'the primeval roots of true beauty' and, 'the sons of men and the daughters of women'; but slowly, as he recited them, one realised that he genuinely thought them impure and revolting.

Rafael spooned an attempt from the right before United put together an impressive passage of play.

But just as impressive were quiet passages and nuanced transitions, handled with a subtlety uncommon in so sizable an ensemble.

Woodwinds had character, and the brasses were powerful in sonorous outbursts but no less impressive in quiet passages, even those, yes, Wagner tubas.

"Preliminary Study" struck me as largely impressive (a few passages, notably one quartet for two men and two women, seemed mere padding) if a bit too consciously hip.

Apart from Clarke and the strike bowlers, Chris Rogers and Steve Smith also completed impressive rites of passage.