Sentence examples for in a reckoning from inspiring English sources

In a reckoning that might have come out of Greek tragedy, his unique gifts of movement and speech are seriously impaired.

But when tens of thousands of protesters thronged the streets this week, rattling cities across the country in a reckoning this nation had not experienced in decades, she was dumbfounded, at a loss to explain how it could have happened.

WASHINGTON — James D'Agostino craned his neck to get a view of the Morgan Stanley chief executive John J. Mack in the hope that the Wall Street titan would be subjected to a firestorm of criticism in a reckoning before Congress.

But beneath the surface of cultural prestige, the resounding achievement of Derry's year as city of culture lies in the way it not only refused to airbrush the Troubles and Bloody Sunday with arty-farty gloss, but engaged in a reckoning with the recent past, beyond the politicians' patois of reconciliation.

"When this compassionate day came up I never thought I would ever be in a reckoning to win it.

The community that unites in prayer on Yom Kippur has a long history behind it, and whoever joins it in prayer gets swept up in a reckoning much larger than his own.

At the New Year's Day weigh-in — a reckoning that is the highlight of the first episode — she makes her assistants give her the number of pounds she has to drop (about 90) in British measurements because it doesn't sound as bad.

Haltingly, and with difficulty, well beneath the upper strata of government in Ankara, a reckoning with history is edging forward in Turkey.

Implicit in such a reckoning, they say, are such difficult questions as who speaks for the millions who perished.

"I wanted to know how the rest of their lives had been affected". His interest was in part a reckoning with his own experience.

Not only does the show imagine a world in which a reckoning has begun for abusers and predators; it imagines the impact that this public accounting could have on ordinary women.