Sentence examples for of behaving so from inspiring English sources

It is true that we are faced with a secular version of the problem of evil: how can we expect beings capable of behaving so badly to design and sustain a system that will lead them to be good?

It is a truth manifest particularly in the world of New York's moneyed nightlife, where the fear of looking too self-enamored (if not the fear of behaving so) has resulted in a chaotic hodgepodge of sartorial display.

Give them wide berth and realize that they use their rudeness as a self-defense against a world of people who raise fear or irritation in them and let them find out their own consequences of behaving so condescendingly.

But reversing the increasing trend of men behaving so selfishly involves, first, a commitment on the part of those same men to be moral, ethical, and faithful under all circumstances, and second the creation of a culture in which women are valued for something other than skin tone, biceps, and breast size.

Elsewhere, there were isolated reports of people not behaving so well.

Her daughter Mary recognizes "it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in".

The parents might simply fail at it (and feel it as a failure) because talking in new ways (especially to one's children) usually depends on one's ability to take on new ways of thinking and behaving, so closely are talk, action, and belief intertwined.

I have never known some of my chums to behave so badly.

But I hadn't met a bishop before; and, from the example of the only bishop I'd ever observed, I hadn't thought it possible for someone of Moore's rank to behave so unassumingly.

If a Sotho-speaking girl becomes pregnant before marriage, her unhappy parents may name the baby Question or Answer — an answer to the question of why their daughter was behaving so strangely before the pregnancy became known.

His prose poem "Gossip" explains: "They thought me miserable because they couldn't imagine themselves behaving so badly out of weakness or choice, but only if they were overcome by a superior force...