Sentence examples similar to it roused us from inspiring English sources

It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices'.

Despite its failings, Gay's book touches on so many relevant ideas and issues, subjects and themes, that it rouses us to a keen awareness of our own condition.

The question is whether it will rouse us from our torpor and spur us on to further action.

The trams, unfortunately, start running long before then, and they roused us on Sunday morning.

But Black Lives Matter is a reaction to more than simply the injustices of a single year: it's intended to rouse us from decades and centuries of passive slumber about white supremacy and structural racism.

The Firestone 500 case taught me that too often it takes needless deaths to rouse us to anger and make us demand reform.

That would finally rouse us to action -- but in fact it's pretty much what we're doing to ourselves.

If a book we're reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it ?" In 1976, Roth moved to London to live with actress Claire Bloom.

If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?" 1 Almost all of us who read books for a living and/or pleasure have undoubtedly experienced that most delightfully troubling of phenomena: a novel that forces us to think differently about the world and the way that we live.

And Peter's made it home, just in time for Christmas morning, and he's brewed a fresh pot of Folgers to rouse us from our slumber!

In the morning, when the attendant came to rouse us, I jumped to unlock the door.