Sentence examples for mass against from inspiring English sources

The crown of the weeping cherry, motionless and more than forty feet high, was a feathery mass against a sky strewn with stars.

I don't know, but because of the way they've been wandering there's a very good chance they'll end up below critical mass against all of their chosen competitors.

He had no illusions about the virtues of the crowd, but from the start of his career he spoke for the gullible mass against those who would exploit them.

It is nonetheless the chorus that here becomes the defining element of "Antigone," the ordinary mass against which the extraordinary few flare briefly before dying for sins that others were not bold enough to commit.

"Living without peace is a constant torment," he said during mass, against the backdrop of a chubby baby Jesus wearing a Palestinian kiffaya, or scarf, in place of swaddling.

If the motion is carried, both the leader and deputy's jobs will become vacant – and at that point Ms Bishop will be free to throw her hat in the ring, Pundits believe that, even if the Prime Minister survives Tuesday's events, his authority will be fatally wounded – and it will only be a matter of time before enough MPs mass against him.

But the forces massing against the idea are fearsome.

You can add dramatic accents by setting dark green masses against light-colored flowerbeds.

With our troops massed against Iraq, Americans are apprehensive and divided.

Yves Tanguy's "Hostages" (1934), with its blobby humanoids massed against a distant horizon, is a classic Surrealist dreamscape.

The silkily evil Elsworth Toohey is portrayed filing copy from his bathtub and inciting the masses against Roark.