Sentence examples for occasion into from inspiring English sources
Instead, he turned the occasion into an inventive intellectual exercise, full of allusions and references that would mostly escape the casual listener.
Albert announced his abdication plans less than three weeks ago, leaving little time to turn the occasion into a huge international event.
"The news seemed to turn the inauguration celebration, normally a highly festive occasion, into an event of unbridled joy for Mr. Reagan and his supporters," The Times wrote.
Even if that could be taken as an implicit critique of the church's position on homosexuality, the parish did not make the family occasion into a cause.
Cyrano (Kevin Kline), a nobleman serving in the French Army in the seventeenth century, is the consummate actor; he turns every occasion into an exhibition of aplomb.
However, a section of the crowd could not prevent themselves from turning the occasion into a tribal demonstration of discontents of the present.
Ptolemy's Almagest was translated on at least four occasions into Arabic.
Yes, it has come to this: dividing dog-feeding occasions into day parts and designating the morning meal as requiring something special for Spot.
He said such machines had turned ice carvings, once an art form for rarefied occasions, into a common feature of mainstream corporate events, weddings, festivals and private parties.
Birthday, graduation, wedding and prom photos were transformed from mementos of happy occasions into missing-persons documents; toothbrushes, hairbrushes, T-shirts into DNA samples; a tattoo, an earring, a favorite nail polish color into a means of corpse identification.
When Salinger himself inserted recognizable locales and occasions into his fiction, was that infringement or tribute?
