Sentence examples for mountaintop sanctuary from inspiring English sources
A century later, when Gene Robinson arrived on campus, Sewanee remained an insular place, a mountaintop sanctuary known for its academic rigor, its cultivated airs, and a full measure of that particular Southern regard for tradition.
The Leakeys live in a mountaintop tent.
Then, in 1934, a New York City resident, Rosalie Edge, raised money to buy the mountaintop and form the sanctuary, cutting the hunters off from the best shooting spots.
Saint John the Evangelist is not on a mountaintop, not in a desert sanctuary, not in a medieval stone village, but in that bastion of secular modernity known as Cambridge, Mass., home to both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The primordial yawp goes out and the scatterlings stop their typing, cash in their saved-up vacations, pack their cars or board planes, drawn to some remote spot, some sanctuary (in this case, an actual Vermont mountaintop) isolated from friends and family to consider art, and their aspiration to make it.
Walter, "greener than Greenpeace," strangely colludes with a superrich Texan to despoil a West Virginia mountaintop, though it means uprooting 200 local families, "most of them very poor" — all to create a sanctuary for a species of warbler not even on the federal endangered list.
Mountaintop Mining Sec 432.
Special performance standards - Mountaintop removal.
Special performance standards - mountaintop removal.
Commandments are delivered from the mountaintop.
