Sentence examples for passage of reflection from inspiring English sources

It was a brief passage of reflection between the two men, both acknowledging the depth of their faith.

It contains moving passages of reflection on what his powers as artist have been able to accomplish, and valedictory themes of closure.

Sentences of stark non-feeling take on a greater power now, after the heightened, complex colors that Baldwin has used in both the passages of description and the passages of reflection and analysis.

"When he returned from the theatre of war and from being the agent of whistling death out of the skies…" writes Ford in one of those luminous passages of reflection that have become a kind of signature, "he may have been in the grip of some great, unspecific gravity, as many GIs were.

Depending on how he arranges them, they evoke different feelings, different interpretations, and it is these that interest him, more than the events themselves; when telling his story, he often glides over long periods in a single paragraph or selects one tiny incident, dispensed with in a sentence or two, as a jumping-off point for long passages of reflection.

His own memoir, "Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator" (Frederic C. Beil/Naval Institute Press), chronicles a teenager's introduction to the seeming random violence of mechanized warfare.

There was urgency in Lewis's playing from the beginning, and the darker undercurrents of the drama began to exert their power in the sixth setting, Der Neugierige (The Inquisitive One), when Schubert breaks the strophic structure of the song, the music modulates and the young protagonist is allowed his first moment of reflection in a passage of recitative.

With speed and lack of reflection rivaling the passage of the USA Patriot Act after 9/11, Congress pushed this animal industry-crafted law through in a single day, with only a lone dissenting vote in opposition, that of Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

"Jindal's major political base is the extreme religious right and the passage of that bill is a reflection of that relationship … he's so completely now beholden to the extreme religious right".

"Nishan I" (2007-12), a handsome, multivideo installation shot inside an abandoned apartment in Kashmir, purports to ruminate on that region's politics, but seems more about the passage of light through windows and reflections, traditional allegories for the camera and filmmaking itself.

If rediscovering Sinéad O'Connor was a reflection on the passage of time, so was my first trip to City Winery.