Sentence examples for it exacts from inspiring English sources
Hollywood dangles fame and fortune, but it exacts its pound of flesh.
And both miss the central point and problem of "The Hunger Games" trilogy: it is a story about a long counterinsurgency campaign, the costs it exacts, its moral traps, and the political use of violence.
But at the same time, the industry is discovering a lesson already learned by music labels and Hollywood studios: Apple may offer new opportunities with its devices, but it exacts a heavy toll.
And just as poetry's subject is life in all its manifestations, so it exacts from the reader an equal attention to the human gift of language - meaning, tone, overtone, music, pattern, memorability, the power to move and delight.
Its effect on those who employ it — the price it exacts upon greed — is the comeuppance dealt out in this picaresque novel.
The gifts it bestows on its inhabitants – both owners and servants – and the duties and loyalties it exacts from them exert a directional pull on the course of the book.
In it, exacting craftsmanship has the chill of the mortician's art.
Now it has exacted its revenge.
"It's exact and indefinite.
