Sentence examples for ingenuity of men from inspiring English sources

But 160 prisoners did escape, according to German records -- 30 of them eventually reaching their homelands, the others recaptured -- thanks to the ingenuity of men like Colonel Yule, who was a captain at the time in the British Signal Corps.

The list of useful implements that can be crafted from wood is infinite and amazing, and I am spellbound by the ancient practice of woodworking, fueled by the ingenuity of men and women to cleverly alter this natural material into items of use and beauty.

You'd think, wouldn't you, that to make walking frames seem cool would be beyond the ingenuity of man?

"In the face of its onrush," he writes, "all the wisdom and ingenuity of man were unavailing".

It is an epidemic in sports, which every year seems to be about getting bigger and faster, more about muscle -- natural or otherwise -- than the ingenuity of man.

Nineteenth-century English critics largely concurred; as one wrote in 1811 with a certain bravado, an explanation of his volumes "would defy the highest ingenuity of man".

Torches, candles, oil lamps, gas lamps, lightbulbs – these were not only facilitators of productivity and examples of the extraordinary ingenuity of man, but also sacred talismans to ward off ever-encroaching night and the malevolence it supposedly enables.

It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.'.

Malcolm Slesser suggested that its shape "sticks out of the west coast of northern Scotland like a lobster's claw ready to snap at the fish bone of Harris and Lewis and W. H. Murrayy, commenting on its irregular coastline, stated that "Skye is sixty miles [100 km] long, but what might be its breadth is beyond the ingenuity of man to state".

Indeed, it's the ingenuity of the men in the face of incredible odds and discomforts that's fascinating.

The German artist Albrecht Dürer, who saw the tribute, was similarly impressed: "I marvelled over the subtle ingenuity of the men in these distant lands.