Sentence examples for on the very thing from inspiring English sources

Doing a straightforward adaptation was one notion, but then Collins had a brainwave: why not focus on the very thing that most productions would try to disguise: the medium.

Ironically, these demonstrations rely on the very thing that they seek to end.

They'd set their sights on the very thing they were singing about on their debut single.

"Fundamentalism," he says, "relies on the very thing it repudiates: interpretive latitude".

This ability depends in part on the very thing that caffeine seeks to prevent: a wandering, unfocussed mind.

For a long time, censorship was focused on the very thing that make traditional Japanese erotica so distinctive: the genitals.

It refers to a logically faulty argument that is based on assuming the very thing one is trying to prove.

Steinberg argues that the seductions of genetic research are based on the very things that genes can't explain.

"The first vote that Representative Morella casts for that leadership guarantees they are not going to make progress on the very things she says she cares about".

To convert curse into blessing, as God did to Balaam in the Bible, Walcott seized on the very things the Caribbean lacked — the ancient history and epic literature on which poetic imagination feeds — and insisted that their absence was the greatest gift of all.

To convert curse into blessing, as God did to Balaam in the Bible, Walcott seized on the very things the Caribbean lacked the ancient history and epic literature on which poetic imagination feeds and insisted that their absence was the greatest gift of all.