Sentence examples for leans upon from inspiring English sources

It is among the disappointments of Tracy Thompson's new book, "The New Mind of the South," that it leans upon Cash's title while not coming to terms with his masterpiece at all.

At National Gallery, London Rembrandt – A Woman in Bed, c1645-6 This almost shockingly intimate painting shows a young woman pushing back a red and gold curtain as she leans upon a lace pillow.

It's not just love of country that impels him, but a feeling of indebtedness to the past: "I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution.

The Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, speaking just before the new President, read at length from a letter that Sullivan Ballou, a Union officer, wrote to his wife: "I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us".

I finally arrived in front of this dramatic painting, exhibited on a single wall, and began out loud: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of the ages on his face..

The foundation that Netflix leans upon to dispute the fact that peering agreements are a bad idea is twofold.

This is what Auden meant when he pointed to Murray's explorations of a reassuring "here" and "there," I think: the intuition that verbal constructions are stable enough to lean upon, as sturdy as a mountain range or a grand building, and also as mysterious and surprising in their branching trails and corridors.

She leaned upon her window-sill.

Domestic banks can be leant upon to absorb government bond auctions.

The Pope leaned upon him heavily in directing the third convocation of the Council of Trent (1562 63).

I want it to be looked upon and leant upon like a neighbour's fence in years to come".