Sentence examples for lower realms from inspiring English sources

An H.I.V.-positive character declines to spread it to the unknowing; an artist recovers his gifts after a long stumble through the lower realms of groupie dissolution.

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival is where towering achievement meets buckets of blood, where the cinematic highbrow jostles alongside the middle and lower realms for 11 crammed, ecstatic, enervating days and nights.

In 2001, the Welsh club was nestled firmly in the lower realms of the Football League, with owners in charge who were making decisions of detriment to the club.

As the strata take form, these brahma deities gradually descend into the lower realms and eventually become the first inhabitants of the new earth, from whom all humans descend.

Of course, as a Buddhist who believes in Buddha's basic ideas of rebirth in higher and lower realms of existence depending on the implacable law of karma, it SEEMS reasonable to say that "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

Following the Five Precepts is said to lead to rebirth as a human and prevent rebirth in one of the lower realms of suffering.

The incident was about to leave the lower realm of clumsy gestures and mixed feelings and local relationships for the higher altitudes of full-blown national controversy.

Chris Cook, Chandler, Arizona Chris, the human body, when propped up in the vertical position, is divided, very broadly speaking, into two thematic zones: the upper realm, to which belong the intellect and the emotions, and the lower realm, where, it might be said, our baser impulses dwell.

Each of them – with no disrespect – is born in egotism, and dies in egotism – a non-Buddha till the end – and thus must take birth AGAIN – in a higher or lower realm, depending on the ending balance in their karmic bank account.

In the scene in which Wotan and Loge, the demigod of fire (here the tenor Richard Croft in a vocally suave and sly performance), try to wrest the booty of gold and the magic ring from Alberich in the lower realm of Nibelheim, Mr. Levine was an attentive accompanist, allowing the singers to exchange lines with conversational urgency, yet always there to nudge and juice the orchestral subtext.

If there were no such heavenly causation, according to al-Kindi, the elements would never have combined at all, and the lower realm would consist of four spheres of unmixed earth, water, air and fire.