Sentence examples for pulled to pieces from inspiring English sources
This line by Marina Tsvetaeva describes her: "Genius: the highest degree of being mentally pulled to pieces, and the highest of being — collected".
Across great swaths of nature... the major puzzles of existence have been pulled to pieces in the hands... of all-conquering and -consuming scientific rationality".
Today, when the guts of dead pharaohs are dragged from their ruined tombs to be pulled to pieces before our prying eyes, it might be expected that such ambitions of permanence had been finally abandoned.
On the contrary, there appear to be plenty of people who – to judge from the comments they leave – deliberately read material they deride, albeit that the outcome is the same: they conclude their world view is right and the author of the piece they have pulled to pieces is wrong.
In a letter to his older brother, Orion, he wrote: "When I get in I am borne and rubbed and crowded along, and need scarcely trouble myself about using my own legs; and when I get out it seems like I had been pulled to pieces and very badly put together again".
Padua launches a host of flights of fancy – George Eliot having the manuscript of Scenes of Clerical Life pulled to pieces as Babbage's engine reduces it to searchable bits; Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington (on a horse) popping round to see how the machine works.
In particular, he noted that Dionysus taps the ancient Greek concept of sparagmos — which means to "tear, rend, pull to pieces" — as an act of ripping apart an animal or human as a sacrifice.
K: Pro Tools for recording, being innovative with our existing computer storage, and getting anything else we can, including secondhand unwanted sound gear that we can pull to pieces and use.
Pulled to various pieces at SAIC, the ground work was laid for her art now, which feeds primarily on the juxtaposition of trivial or aesthetic subject matter with the decadence and presentation afforded to more "serious" forms of art.
He pulled it to pieces quite indiscriminately, biting stalk, flower, or calyx quite indifferently, and the same with a few more which were given to him at the same time.
Simply dig up the plant and pull it to pieces.
