Sentence examples for it is thwarted from inspiring English sources

In the realm of the fairies, too, love is inconstant and inspires brutality when it is thwarted.

Though it sits directly in front of him, his desire to reach out and grab it is thwarted by his paralyzed body.

But he may go on to discover that high political ambition can be more cruelly mocked when it succeeds than when it is thwarted by defeat.

Most of this work is juvenile, but the best of it exploits teenage angst to convey something of the wincing discomfort of unadulterated emotion and the appeal of nonconformism before it is thwarted by real-world experience and cliché -- a metaphor for art-making.

Much speculation focuses on whether Mr. Assad will try to dump the Baath Party because it is thwarting any change, and Alawites have begun to worry it might sink them.

The presence of the Arab League mission, even if it was thwarted in its work, was considered something of a brake on the government violence against civilians.

At the same time, he sent an army to seize Amsterdam, but it was thwarted by delays on its march and by the determined resistance of the municipal authorities, supported by the common people.

Two years after an attempt to close it was thwarted, BBC 6 Music is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Her imaginative, passionate life has been set going, and then it's thwarted abruptly (partly by her own proud act).

It was thwarted first by the Senate in July 2014 and then the full federal court in March 2015.

It was a good, strong first half for the United States, though it was thwarted several times by El Salvador goalkeeper Dagoberto Portillo.