Sentence examples for mysterious influence from inspiring English sources

They move as they do because of the slope where they are, not because of some mysterious influence emanating from the summit.

Their children, an understandably sober-minded lot, become even more grave and reproachful when they fall under the mysterious influence of an alien creature that has taken up residence in a seaside cave.

By rewarding ambitious proprietors, the authorities in Saint-Émilion seemed to be saying that human hands and scientific knowledge played just as important a role in the quality of the wine as the mysterious influence of the land.

This line of thinking encourages progressives to content themselves with the impotent avuncular socialism of Bernie Sanders (the Ron Paul of the left), and the toothsome, wholly unthreatening ambition of Martin O'Malley, and otherwise simply hope that Ms Warren's earnest and articulate defence of actual progressive convictions somehow exerts a mysterious influence on Ms Clinton.

Acid base catalysis was originally thought of in terms of a mysterious influence of the acid or base, but it is now generally believed to involve an actual acid base reaction between the catalyst and the reacting substance, termed the substrate, with the catalyst being regenerated at a later stage of the reaction.

He struggled equally to express the mysterious influence of the night on the human heart as he understood it from his own tumultuous life.

Eleven previous expeditions have failed, with mysterious influences driving the explorers to suicide, madness and cancer.

And while her doctors diagnosed hysteria, a condition "most prevalent in the young female members of the higher classes", they also discerned that excited minds seemed "to exercise some mysterious or occult influence".

Chavannes's faraway, mysterious figures influenced the classicism of some of Picasso's early representational paintings.

On Twitter, a parliamentary colleague, Lionnel Luca, even wondered if Mr. Hollande had not in some mysterious way influenced the decision.

Revisiting his childhood home — rooms permeated by the odors of the beauty parlor downstairs, which infused young Guy with mysterious feminine influences — he stages a funny and unnerving domestic tableau, in which the buried themes of sex, need and emotional peril bubble close to the surface.