Sentence examples for of a descent from inspiring English sources

How much of a descent is that?

The poem's depictions of hell also echo the epic convention of a descent into the underworld.

Others, like the risk of a descent into mediocrity, will not.

The most common cause of a descent into extreme destitution is the loss of a job".

To them, he embodied what Atkin calls "the dangerous possibility of a descent into anarchy".

But it was also, she said, the culmination of "a descent into hell".

The bowl curves out so that each of them has a descent of a different length.

The incarnation is not the special instance of a cyclic descent of God always occurring afresh in constantly new veils.

A rate of 600 metres (2,000ft) a minute would be typical of a controlled descent.

"The finish was quite a tough one with a bit of a dangerous descent.

Chaperonin proteins, apparently of a prokaryotic descent, also function in chloroplast division.