Sentence examples for of her element from inspiring English sources

And then, in a different mode, there was Marie Curie, who had spent four backbreaking years in a shed extracting a pinch of "her" element, radium, from four stubborn tons of pitchblende.

The whirlwind trip has taken Victor out of her element.

Only in the Verdi Requiem did she seem a shade out of her element.

Ms Zernike, however, appears somewhat out of her element handling this sort of exotica.

At a professional-level ballet class at New York City Center, she was out of her element but inspired.

Although she has recorded dozens of songs using rock rhythm sections, Miss Streisand still feels out of her element singing music with a strong, regular backbeat.

Also preposterous is that various authority figures seem unfazed that this clearly out-of-her-element girl is wandering the streets and turning up alone in a prison visiting room.

Ms. Schepps avoids tedium by varying the size of her elements and by using blazingly bright colors against black backgrounds.

We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Genesis 2 7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters".

She is out of her usual element in this city of strip malls and car dealerships surrounded by cattle ranches and an Army base.

Joyce Carol Oates is mistress of instability – quicksand her element here.