Sentence examples for local habitations from inspiring English sources

You can recognize these local habitations even if you have never visited the city.

There is usually something very earthy about the local habitations of the airy nothings of the English imagination.

Theatre space is almost as sacred as the hallowed ground of churches, lending the whole endeavour "a local habitation and a name" as Shakespeare put it.

Because Ms. Gordimer coyly refuses to give Ibrahim's country a local habitation and a name, the couple's sojourn there feels somewhat abstract and disembodied.

And because the action has a local habitation, it is legitimate to ask exactly who Benedick and Beatrice are and how they fit into the general picture.

And, although the action hurtles along at great speed, the characters lack any local habitation: Hilton's one reckless gesture towards realism is to have Edgar enter munching a pear.

Shakespeare of course had no need of such apparatus; the moon's "wat'ry light" is given "local habitation" (as the play's duke says) by Shakespeare's poetry; the insubstantial is given substance without need of lanterns and almanacs.

The benefits of such precision are numerous: it gives every scene a local habitation; it ensures a rigorous attention to language; it also makes sense of things that often seem obscure.

What Robert Reich has talked about for years, and John Edwards has talked about for the past several months — that the gap has widened between the wealthy few and everybody else — is, in the bicycle taxi, suddenly given a local habitation and a loud bell.

Well, I get anxious anyway – about a week into any break I am overwhelmed by a paranoid sense of mental constriction – surely I should be writing, surely there is a part of me which must be shouting and blethering on at all times, forever and ever, expressing a internal queue of amorphous people intent on having a local habitation and a name..

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus offers a famous description of the workings of the poetic imagination, which "bodies forth / The forms of things unknown" while "the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name".