Sentence examples for orient us to from inspiring English sources

The stories our leaders tell us matter, probably almost as much as the stories our parents tell us as children, because they orient us to what is, what could be, and what should be; to the worldviews they hold and to the values they hold sacred.

Bookslut: "In absence of plot, we look to characterization to orient us, to tell us something about people that speaks with more specificity than the riffs on cultural mores that occupy the book's sense of ostensible humor".

1. "The stories our leaders tell us matter, probably almost as much as the stories our parents tell us as children, because they orient us to what is, what could be, and what should be".

As such, they are among the most important objects in the visual environment faces capture our attention, and orient us to other minds that can think, feel, and interact with our own.

First off, he orients us to our surroundings by quoting "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

At Essex I had a chance to take a course in functional semantics with Halliday, which oriented us to work by Malinowki and Firth, the Prague School and Labov.

Our interpersonal discourse semantic approach also oriented us to the prosodic nature of the realisation of attitude in discourse, as developed by Hood in her work on academic writing (Hood 2006, 2010).

Another Czech writer, Vaclav Havel, has oriented us to the fact that what the world currently needs is more understanding, not explanation.

In one, a square-jawed firefighter backed by the Statue of Liberty and a translucent American flag overlook a fire engine careening down a suburban street toward the smoldering World Trade Center, a billboard for the musical Stomp further orienting us to the New York of the early aughts.

In one, a square-jawed firefighter backed by the statue of liberty and a translucent American flag overlooks a fire engine careening down a suburban street toward the smouldering World Trade Center, a billboard for the musical Stomp further orienting us to the New York of the early aughts.

As Woodward (1999, p. 186) notes, 'If we generally regard statistics as a depersonalizing force … we see that when we apply them to ourselves, creating our own emotional dramas out of them, they can have an overwhelming power, orienting us to the world in a particular way'.