Sentence examples for passing sense from inspiring English sources

I had many religious beliefs or, more accurately, the ego in me held tightly to many beliefs and so found an illusory and passing sense of identity in them.

Another study investigated recruitment processes across a spectrum of trials of medicines for children; it reported that parents valued safety above other benefits to their children and declined the randomized intervention if they felt a passing sense of discomfort [ 12].

He watched the Seoul Olympics on television and felt only a passing sense of regret.

The player Moyes signed from Everton for £27m offered little in a passing sense and, not for the first time, the crowd revelled in his substitution.

Yet the night was so devoted to attacking football, from both sides, there was only a passing sense that the fun would stop there.

If you could drop a fox terrier or a Rolls-Royce Phantom II or a back-road route to Hyde Park into the conversation, he'd light up, and the odd passing sense that you'd been looking at an Addams rendering of Addams would go away.

Why? Well the numbers suggest that focusing more on passing makes sense.

The theme of "Africa" concerns the finding of a spiritual home amid geographical displacement, and of passing that sense of belonging on to one's children.

Is it time to seriously consider passing "common sense gun legislation" or should we spend more time on addressing mental health or ending the drug war?

There is an acute sense of time passing, an acute sense of mortality, an acute sense of history in the making with this project.

Yet Democratic lawmakers have once again shied away from passing common-sense measures to do so, sinking two GOP bills early on in the legislative process.