Sentence examples for play in the midst of from inspiring English sources

In one story of Los museos abandonados, a couple abandon themselves to erotic play in the midst of a museum in ruins.

This is perhaps why Rand's literary agent, Alan Collins, said Ideal was a novel that only she could have written: In 1946, he wrote to Rand, "Had I come on a copy of this play in the midst of the Fiji Islands I would have had no doubt as to the authorship, as the writing, theme, and conception of the characters are uniquely yours".

In 1956 he read that on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg a Confederate band played in the midst of cannonading.

These games are being played in the midst of sorrow; rescue workers are still carrying out remains of victims, technosnipers are sending deadly bacteria in the mail.

Texas blocked a West Virginia field goal attempt and South Carolina just deflected and intercepted Georgia, two early, big defensive plays in the midst of what had been a breakneck offensive pace for both games.

The shot opens on a close-up of a violin and pulls back to reveal a full string quartet playing in the midst of a destroyed German town.

There is something indefinably stirring about this kind of goal, when crosses are hoisted vertiginously from one full-back to another as if the whole game is being played in the midst of a raging, rolling storm at sea, hapless first mates tumbling into the waves as high-calibre defending forces the deep extremes of the pitch to be explored and conquered.

We will play baseball in the midst of the beginning of this war.

For now, the lawn offers a rare opportunity to those who want to stroll or play Frisbee in the midst of history.

The Cowboys rank first in the N.F.L. in total defense, which is not what the Redskins needed to play against in the midst of Spurrier's self-doubt the last 10 days.

Serving and volleying may be a fading art, but Taylor Dent has still managed to reach the fourth round doing it regularly, and net play is in the midst of a minor revival.