Sentence examples for invented to explain from inspiring English sources

The sciences were invented to explain the accomplishments -- and to analyze their shortcomings.

Latinus was a shadowy personality who was perhaps invented to explain the origin of Rome and its relations with Latium.

It now seems the animals were never bought and their "deaths" were invented to explain their absence.

Gene does not exist, they say, and was invented to explain the missing hours when the murders occurred.

Rites can be very tenacious, and when the origin of a rite has been forgotten, a myth has often been invented to explain it.

The story of the rape of the Sabine women was perhaps invented to explain the custom of simulated capture in the Roman marriage ceremony.

This cultural conflict is used to suggest a more complex set of oppositions: between experience and narrative, between the things that happen to us and the stories we invent to explain them.

The science Wells invents to explain invisibility also feels more convincing and appealing than his attempts in The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, the two other novels of his that I've read.

We have invented syndromes to explain and justify our addiction and distempers; in an emergency, we can always plead that we are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, though the trauma may have been our tantrum when we realised that the world was not going to satisfy our demands.

Sexual selection was invented precisely to explain unusual dimorphic structures used in mating, and therefore dimorphism is essential to it.

If we didn't have Freud, we would have to invent him to explain Ensor's mother fixation, his Jesus complex, his gentle and childlike nature combined with his general state of public loathing.