Sentence examples for powers ascribed to from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
When applied to humans, it means pretty much the same thing as when applied to animals, though some of the powers popularly ascribed to it these days are far-fetched.
Research using new data from the Census Bureau shows all of the job creating power commonly ascribed to small business is really due to the fraction of small businesses that are start-ups.
Initially, the weighty nature of his thoughts surprised me, not because of the resolution's affect on the major tech companies' relationship with the U.S. government, but because of the power he ascribed to these mega-companies.
Why is it, wonders Newman, that magical powers are never ascribed to beautiful works of art?
It is the SNP's fabled white paper on independence – a document so portentous that already magical powers have been ascribed to it.
