Sentence examples for passage turns from inspiring English sources

For all its humour, Rites of Passage turns into a most disturbing book.

He tweaks up some emphases: a wonderful passage turns the speech of a doctor into a mini-director.

She puts up with her passive status grumpily (Swank's mouth turns downward in irritation), but George Putnam Richard Geree), the publishing heir and public-relations genius who set up Earhart's passage, turns her into a national celebrity, with her own line of clothes and luggage.

The passage turned out to be a prose poem by the Minnesota poet Louis Jenkins, who is now seventy-three.

In one passage, turning her back to the audience, she let her shoulders rapidly rise and fall, all in time with the drum.

A fast, walking bass invited cascading, staccato phrases from the orchestra; a slower, more rhapsodic bass passage turned into a haunting quartet with piano, oboe and a percussionist playing the marimba with a bow.

Having written the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act all by his lonesome, he now has to watch the accolades heaped upon the law upon its passage turn into denunciations because he revealed the shocking truth about its contents.

It's a short route, but it's rough going: the Pacific, Atlantic, and Southern oceans all converge at the Drake Passage, turning it into a roiling mess of waves and competing currents.

He sought congressional approval for a military strike, and when passage turned dubious, he lent support to the Russian initiative through which Assad promised to destroy his chemical weapons.

Several other passages turned out to be from still other writers.

Some of his sustained high passages turned leathery, but the part is punishing, and Mr. Honeywell dispatched it fearlessly over all.