Sentence examples for off the towers from inspiring English sources

"The sun was glinting off the towers and this image of a tiny speck of a human came to my mind," he said.

Lawrence Ingrassia, the editor of The Journal's Money and Investing section, got on a ferry, he recalled, as "people were jumping off the towers".

The building had suffered mightily from the fire that raged in it, and it had been wounded by the flying beams falling off the towers.

Even before you had time to figure out how you felt about those people jumping off the towers, or the stoical firemen, they were framed, padded, upholstered by socially enforced sentiment.

France has made a specialty of this: it produced Serge Gainsbourg, who looked like something that snapped off the towers of Notre-Dame but nevertheless — or, rather, as a perverse result — ended up with Jane Birkin.

I wanted to enjoy Vientiane's most famous landmark, the That Luang, as the long rays of the sun bounced brilliantly off the towers covered in tons of gold leaf.

"Falling off the tower was in the script.

We are talking, alone, on a balcony jutting off the tower.

And the hotel's new owner says that after the netting comes off, the tower will get a bit of a new look.

Certainly, no one has been able to carry off the towering Buddhas of the city of Bamiyan, which is about 90 miles west of Kabul.

"We say, 'We can, and we will.'" "The people want the fall of the regime," the crowds chanted on the darkened square, their words echoing off the towering buildings nearby.