Sentence examples for our incessant from inspiring English sources

The contrast is a stark one, putting our incessant western search for nutritional nirvana into harsh context.

He wants to work things out, even with our incessant demands to be talked to every time we go to war.

Benedetta, a bruiser at the best of times, is strangely sweet and gentle in Italian; Emma, our incessant court jester in English, is precise and serious; and Leo, who has always seemed stereotypically Italian, is even more boisterous.

"People see big stores as dinosaurs, but our story is all about permanent re-invention and if the 'grand magasins' are still here, it is because of our incessant interest in looking for partners, finding new things and persuading great artists to work with us," said Philippe Houzée, chairman of the store's executive board.

She quotes the Puritan minister Increase Mather — "Drink is in itself a good Creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil" — and declares his words "an early version of our incessant 'moderation' sermons, with only a pint or two dividing heaven from hell".

In his classic 1965 study, "Deceit, Desire and the Novel," the critic Ren?irard argued that the novel's greatest subject is not love, or warfare or the vicissitudes of everyday life, but "imitative desire": that is, our incessant and impossible urge to have what other people have, to replicate their desires in place of locating our own.

In one, "Cheat", "with him away" (absence again) the speaker "sunk with the fluke of your hips, / our movements incessant as a distaff and spindle".

But given our 24-hour (incessant?) news cycle, and the news "alerts" we see every time we look at our phones (which for some of us is, all the time), it is virtually impossible to believe that judges are not influenced by the stories of the day, no matter how unrelated they may be to the defendants before them.

It challenges us to face our addiction to incessant thinking, talking and activity, and to let go into the natural freedom that is our birthright.

Adopting an abandoned animal appeals to all of us -- call it a cheap antidote to the anxiety of uncertain times, or simply the ultimate victory of our children's incessant pleas.

They reported that the camp had been attacked in full force, fresh men frequently taking the place of the fatigued and wearing down our troops by incessant toil, inasmuch as the size of the camp obliged the same men to continue throughout on the rampart.