Sentence examples for its own possibility from inspiring English sources

Stupidity offends when it stubbornly ignores its own possibility.

Every generation lives between the world it inherits and its own possibility.

Or, put in another way, we represent "every thing as deriving its own possibility from the share it has in the whole of possibility" (A572/B600).

For the United Nations, the attack, and specifically the death of Vieira de Mello, was a crippling blow, comparable in its effect on the U.N.'s sense of its own possibility to the impact President Kennedy's murder had on the self-confidence of the United States.

Adorno and Horkheimer did not to deny the achievements of the Enlightenment, but rather wanted to show that it had "self-destructive tendencies," that its specific social, cultural and conceptual forms realized in modern Europe "contained its own possibility of a reversal that is universally apparent today" (Adorno and Horkheimer 1982, xiii).

Ready-to-eat processed foods are usually a combination of multiple ingredients, each bringing its own possibility of contamination by a pathogen into the final food products.

(And it's too bad that in this thin version of London all that's left of the human race is whiter than the demographic for melodramas on the WB channel.) The movie might have been a minor classic if it had maximized its own possibilities.

This is an anti-novel in the sense that it consistently diminishes any sense of its own possibilities.

It could be understood as pure painting — art absorbed by its own possibilities, experiments in color and form.

This works partly because the trio really coheres as a unit, and partly because Mr. Glawischnig rightly sees the bass guitar as a device with its own possibilities.

In Being and Time, Heidegger conversely stressed Being-in-the-world as Existenz a form of beingthat is "ecstatically," rather than passively, oriented toward its own possibilities.