Sentence examples for passage such as from inspiring English sources

You might also address the notion of "unofficial" rites of passage, such as the acquisition of one's driver's license at sixteen in most parts of the United States.

One can open the volume of Gallant's stories at random and find a passage such as this one, in "The Moslem Wife," the first in the collection.

This is common in festivals in which the social order is temporarily suspended or reversed (as in the ancient Roman Saturnalia and the carnival celebrated in many Roman Catholic countries) and in rites of passage (such as initiation).

The report added: For many Bosnian Muslims, religion often served as a community or ethnic identifier, and religious practice was confined to occasional visits to the mosque or significant rites of passage such as birth, marriage, and death.

Capillarity, rise or depression of a liquid in a small passage such as a tube of small cross-sectional area, like the spaces between the fibres of a towel or the openings in a porous material.

The addition of an external airflow passage such as a window in combination with buoyancy force increased the indoor ventilation by 47%.

Passages such as these reveal Maupin at his rapturous best.

They included passages such as "Why aren't you here to take a good Devonshire walk with me?

There are passages, such as the one below, where the patterns of the words on the page are spellbinding.

The tenderness with which he shaped passages such as the opening Kyrie found its counterweight in furiously dynamic allegros.

It sounded as though only certain choice passages, such as the end of Act IV, had been thoroughly rehearsed.