Sentence examples for proportions ability from inspiring English sources

In the yoga-world of the West, we live in a reality where classism, shame around our bodies, different proportions, ability and disability as well as privilege and racism play into who represents and benefits from the popular face of yoga today.

A sense of humour, in Hrabal, is really a sense of proportion: the ability to diminish the things of this world to their true size.

PARIS — To be modern in fashion today, a designer needs a sculptural knowledge of the human body, an architect's understanding of graphic proportions and an ability to absorb the digital revolution.

Schools would then admit pupils in equal proportions from each ability band.

Their larger-than-average proportions and their ability to achieve and maintain erections in front of a production crew makes them a truly extraordinary bunch.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) AmericanLiterature.com: Ishmael believes he has signed onto a routine commission aboard a normal whaling vessel, but he soon learns that Captain Ahab is not guiding the Pequod in the simple pursuit of commerce but is seeking one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a great white whale infamous for his giant proportions and his ability to destroy the whalers that seek him.

"But the noise they are making is in inverse proportion to their ability to do anything about it".

Followers of the sport feel a fondness for these plodders that is often out of all proportion to their ability.

It quickly became apparent that the quality of my work rose in direct proportion to my ability filter out distractions.

The pattern established by emancipation — in which black progress was valued chiefly in proportion to its ability to assuage white unease, in which self-congratulation became a national motif — remains with us.

Others could consume in proportion to their ability to manufacture claims that entrepreneurs would accept, that is, they could consume what they could borrow.