Sentence examples for power ascribed from inspiring English sources

Murdoch must lie awake wishing he had all the power ascribed to him.

This distinction between contemplated feeling, or poetry, and feeling enacted or endured, is the source of the power, ascribed to art, of "liberating us from the passions" and "calming" us (the power of catharsis), and of the consequent condemnation, from an aesthetic point of view, of works of art, or parts of them, in which immediate feeling has a place or finds a vent.

For example, the new purchasing power ascribed to an old product, buffalo robes, indirectly increased polygyny: women were responsible for dressing hides, so the wives of successful hunters sought to bring new partners into the marriage (often their sisters) to share this arduous work.

Reynolds is in fact invoking the history of the healing shaman ritual in which the tribal shaman, usually a man, dons the traditional clothing of the tribe's women to summon a power ascribed in the society to women alone, yet which becomes more concentrated when the conduit of the power passed to him is male.

Demand for rhinoceros horns, the paws and bile of Asiatic black bears and sun bears, tiger bones and penises, and deer musk, is stimulated by the healing powers ascribed to them in traditional Chinese medicine.

He was portrayed in this role in the great 14th-century historical novel Sanguo Yanyi (in full Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi; Romance of the Three Kingdoms), and since then he has been one of the most popular figures of Chinese legend and folklore, with various evil magic powers ascribed to him.

In Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), the psychologist Dr. Krokowski gives a lecture on the phallus impudicus: And Dr. Krokowski had spoken about one fungus, famous since classical antiquity for its form and the powers ascribed to it -- a morel, its Latin name ending in the adjective impudicus, its form reminiscent of love, and its odor, of death.

While primitive people in the presocial or early communal stages might have been awed by such manifestations of natural power and ascribed them to the action of the gods, they would not necessarily have explained them as chastisement for human crimes before the concept of punishment became familiar under the regime of law.

In fact, it starts looking a whole lot like the intrusive power usually ascribed exclusively to the state.

This project threatens to set us back to an age in which political power was ascribed the mission of promoting a religious confession, or of changing it.

A low-level part of the visual system just one step removed from the retina buzzes while a monkey maintains a visual memory--a power once ascribed only to more sophisticated parts of the brain.