Sentence examples for physical surrender from inspiring English sources

Physical surrender was off the menu for both feuding gangs.

With the Yankees, George Steinbrenner was strictly a one-man show until it became an act of physical surrender to Hank and Hal.

With one arm withered and a leg stiffened, Mr. Radcliffe's Billy from the outset suggests a thoroughgoing physical surrender to a part that he ends up inhabiting emotionally as well.

That might sound romantic or hopeful to some ears, but initially there's something morbid and troubling about her confession, particularly since one of the last images of Louis is of him shooting up and collapsing into Mousse's embrace, a physical surrender that Mr. Ozon stages in a visual echo of a classic Pietà.

The temptation to assimilate "Upstream Color" to the sphere of influence of "The Tree of Life" is great, but it's more useful to consider it in relation to Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," another movie about mind control, mind-altering chemicals, physical self-surrender, and the therapeutic yet destructive power of a demiurge of self-transcendence.

Starting with Freud's connection of sexual repression to neurosis, Reich had theorized that it was the physical inability to surrender to orgasm that underlay neurosis, and eventually turned people to fascism and authoritarianism.

If it's physical, don't surrender.

Individuals may experience restraint as a physical manifestation of their psychological surrender -- surrender to their desire, their pleasure and their partner in a safe, pre-consented environment.

You feel with these Macbeths their physical bond alongside separate surrenders to conscience that neither dares voice in the presence of the other.

Now, surrendering to physical and emotional fatigue, I sprawl at the foot of a mound decorated with prayer flags... Rahul Bohd's video of Simon's climb is on YouTube.

Rothko turned his transcendental experience into an artistic strategy; his work demanded surrender to the physical sensation of color.