Sentence examples for oases of order from inspiring English sources

Cole's writing is assured, his ideas are well developed, and his imagery is delicious: a bus is "like a resting beast," public chess tables are "oases of order and invitations to a twinned solitude," and in an ailing friend's room Death hovers "with its cheap suit and bad manners".

Others regard them as oases of calm.

These visits were oases of human warmth and creature comforts.

Jobs and schools were their oases of independence.

The hospitals are such oases of calm, they're incredible".

The oases of Oman may be green and cool, but they no longer make economic sense.

And will some of the objects launched from the Earth spawn new oases of life elsewhere?

Universities, as oases of opportunity to escape widespread poverty and joblessness, are often a focal point.

In Boston, Gretchen Monahan's hair salons, beauty spas and clothing boutiques are oases of fashion.

The show's off-ramp, rectilinear galleries provide oases of discrimination.

The concept of zoning eventually paved the way for public parks as oases of tranquility.