Sentence examples for references to things from inspiring English sources

Thus, much abstract art contains recognizable references to things from which it derives.

She also bemoaned references to "things that are absolutely off the wall — like gun collections".

His Twitter feed is littered with references to things like Google's voice and wave applications.

There are references to things that have happened outside their flat.

Their writing is spattered with references to things like "strategic intent", "strategy as stretch and leverage", "competitive space" and "expeditionary markets".

These are internal documents, dense with jargon and acronyms and references to things that are common knowledge at Fort Meade," the headquarters of the N.S.A.

Picasso also said that, without reference to things we experience as real, art sacrifices its one indispensable quality: drama.

Because words achieve their usefulness by reference to things, however, it is difficult to construct a dictionary without considerable attention to the objects and abstractions designated.

Riehl held, in direct opposition to the Marburgian logisticism, that the thing-in-itself participates positively in the constitution of knowledge inasmuch as all perception includes a reference to things outside the subject.

God, morality, truth: ultimately you can never convince anyone of anything about them, because your language can't make reference to things that can't be seen in the world (or so say some philosophers).

"I read a play of his the other day which I hadn't read in 10 years and there were motifs in it that I realised, 'My God, that's in my play!' I didn't consciously do it, you just can't help... not stealing, but making reference to things".