Sentence examples for linger upon from inspiring English sources
As long ago as 1931, RH Tawney was pointing out that: "The word 'class' is fraught with unpleasing associations, so that to linger upon it is apt to be interpreted as the symptom of a perverted mind and a jaundiced spirit".
But like a well-balanced Syrah whose robustness and fruity, spicy complexity expand and linger upon the palate, Campisi has made a substantive impact in the field of gerontology.
Nothing common must excite his interest, nor should his gaze linger upon the unbecoming.
For those that linger upon the spool of noodles and ponder its texture longer than the usual diner, it is because we savor it.
He lingered upon a turtle being run over, his earliest encounter with death.
His new work, composed for a soprano, a tenor and six instrumentalists, lingers upon a specific instant in that story: the moment Orpheus turns to view Eurydice, thereby consigning her to oblivion.
Like the final shot of The Long Good Friday, which lingers upon Bob Hoskins's face as he revisits the events that brought him to this sorry pass, 45 Years shows us the past materialising in the expressions of those trapped in the present, staring into an uncertain future.
The first half of this book lingers eagerly upon its characters' unfulfilled desires.
She lingers purposefully upon power, in all its forms, as in this undermining stab: "Forgive me if I say I love you: the powerful/are always lied to since the weak are always/driven by panic".
But the festival's lingering impact upon New York could come even more from the outreach and education ventures that brought music into all five boroughs of the city, with a focus on the public schools.
Passing swiftly over the hijacking itself (which would doubtless form the action-packed centrepiece of an equivalent Hollywood production), writer-director Tobias Lindholm lingers instead upon the excruciating aftermath in which fleetingly abrupt radio communications are interspersed with lengthy bouts of awful dead silence.
