Sentence examples for place of engaged from inspiring English sources

The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.

This sequence, wordless but not silent (it's filled with the noise of the car, its rattling vibrations as it passes the towers that suspend it), led me to fear the worst — that the filmmakers had fallen prey to the confining principles of "Leviathan," in which passive, near-static portraiture takes the place of engaged interaction.

In this collection Jay Meno, a novelist and playwright, splits the difference, characterising books as places or moments of engaged imagination rather than bound pages (or files to download).

In place of an engaged judiciary that independently and impartially evaluates government officials' assertions of power, he offers only an expression of faith in government officials' "constitutional judgment" that he gives us no reason to believe that officials consistently exercise today or will consistently exercise in the future if judges abdicate their constitutional duties.

This philosopher, as he is portrayed in the books of his disciple Plato, frequented the agora – the market and main public gathering place of Athens – engaging fellow citizens in conversation.

"But clearly this is a place where there are a lot of engaged voters".

Because the world is a beautiful place and instead of engaging with all its beautiful glory, this person chooses to waste time picking on people, bullying them, judging them and hurting them.

I admired the way she conjured up a sense of place, I engaged immediately with her characters and I appreciated the clever way she turned a plot.

The jammed, noisy festival proved a difficult place to engage people mostly interested in their next sample of pale ale.

Instead of snapping into place when engaged, it uses some sort of dual-action trigger that always returns the bar back to its original position.

It is widely acknowledged that community nurses are well placed to engage with ACP because of their pivotal role in provision of primary care based end-of-life care [ 18, 19].