Sentence examples for prodding us from inspiring English sources
Still, there is a compelling ethic behind deconstruction, one challenging our very standards of profitability and prodding us to rethink how we use all the different kinds of capital we have — from the resources built into a given house to the people who have built a community around it.
This novel redeems itself by nudging us — prodding us — towards that realisation.
Throughout, Mr. Dant simultaneously deconstructs, satirizes and humanizes the museum experience, gently prodding us to look, and think, for ourselves.
That trick was aided by the fact that the ads appeared unexpectedly, without weeks of hype prodding us to get ready to be moved.
But they can also be provokingly brainy, prodding us, like Conceptual art, to think about materials, processes and traditions, and also about the difference between desire and need, or comfort and excess.
In a 1992 reminiscence, Justice O'Connor wrote that Justice Marshall was "constantly pushing and prodding us to respond not only to the persuasiveness of legal argument but also to the power of moral truth".
He had prodded us to talk to one another.
And we hope that gadgets that prod us into activity can reverse that.
Friends and family turned up to prod us along the last sore miles.
The Ensemble Caprice prods us to think broadly about issues of moment.
