Sentence examples for more extreme experiences from inspiring English sources

"Friends of mine had much more extreme experiences.

"So many of our more extreme experiences are now mediated through films or television that it is hard to absorb the reality of war when you are brought face to face with it.

"Working with my sister is a more extreme experience than working with anyone else," Owen says.

And they both overcame youthful immaturity through their own personal trials — Bush's decision to quit drinking and McCain's obviously more extreme experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

A growing group of people want the more extreme experience of military-style boot camps and obstacle courses like those in the Tough Mudder program, whose adherents forgo the treadmill and its individual TV screen for the exhilaration of crawling under barbed wire and swerving around flames.

The more extreme an experience is, the more deeply it effects one's beliefs, so that a polar vortex or a withering heat wave will sway more minds — and be more persuasive — than a light dusting of snow or a particularly balmy afternoon.

For Kretz, there was nothing more extreme to experience than becoming a mother and she's irked that motherhood-themed work often gets overlooked.

As it is likely that the IPV experienced by women recruited from clinical settings is more extreme than that experienced more typically by women in community samples (Graham-Bermann et al., 2009) there remains a need to better understand the factors associated with risk and resilience in the context of IPV within community samples.

Famiglietti said problems with groundwater are exacerbated by global warming, which has caused the regions closest to the equator to get drier and more extreme latitudes to experience wetter and heavier rains.

Over all, in considering policy options related to African progress, it's vital to keep in mind that the climate history of peri-Saharan regions includes millenniums-long patterns of mega-drought far more extreme than anything experienced in modern times.

We have shown how a continuation of those trends will lead to substantial population losses in a majority of regions and to demographic ageing that will be much more extreme than hitherto experienced in all regions.