Sentence examples for orienting us from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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'.

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

The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail.

There are occasional filmed images of Nigerian crowds and narrative segments meant to orient us in history.

There's no narrative voice-over and nothing onscreen to orient us beyond the periodic "New York, 1906" and "New York, 1907".

Rezaian seems to have an instinct for how stories of all kinds can orient us in the midst of politicized cacophony.

Mr. Mahoney oriented us by pointing out the North Star, the Big and Little Dippers and the constellation Orion, all visible to the naked eye, of course.

Some of those frames help to orient us in space, distinguish up from down and left from right, but some are more richly symbolic: they help us sort out recurring forms from mere incidents of light.

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.