Sentence examples for of our attachment from inspiring English sources

Part of our attachment to baseball has been its reflection of our society over its long history.

A decision like this focuses the mind and, in my case anyway, raises an awareness of our attachment to clutter.

The reason, Ms. Gustafson concluded, was that artists understand "the fetishistic nature of our attachment to dolls and more recently robots".

If we equate achievement with determination and character, and that, after all, has always been part of our attachment to sport -- to celebrate the physical expression of the human spirit -- how do we recalibrate our thinking about sport when laboratories are partners in athletic success?

I think part of our attachment to digital media lies in its newness, and can only hope that in 10 years, we will no more want to check e-mail right before bed than we want to have a conference call with our boss.

Moreover, the usual objects of our attachment are clearly unworthy of a free human being, since they diminish rather than enhance the autonomy of those that endure them.

Iris Murdoch captured a different angle on this link when she wrote, "The quality of our attachments is the quality of our understanding".

They ask us to measure our lives by the quality of our attachments, to see that life is a qualitative endeavor, not a quantitative one.

Apparently in Japan there really are tiny, rudimentary, "Walden -ish off-the-grid houses, and here they are emblematic of a radical rethinking of our attachments to property, jobs and money.

The teachings of Buddha, for example, advise that happiness comes only from letting go of our attachments to worldly things, while in ancient Greece the Stoic philosophers offered a similar prescription, rooted in self-denial and rigorous control over one's thoughts.

Flexibility of our attachments and connections leads to physical and emotional health.