Sentence examples for sense of containing from inspiring English sources

When Ezra Pound called the Cantos a "poem containing history," he exempted his poem itself from history, and the second sense of "containing" applies as well: the Cantos are a kind of quarantine of the past.

The National Cleaners Association, a trade group, says some businesses are using the term "organic" in a blatantly misleading way — not in the sense of a chemical-free peach, but in the chemistry-class sense of containing carbon, the element found in all organic compounds, including perc.

Adams (1974), for example, defines possible worlds to be consistent sets of propositions that are total in the sense of containing, for every proposition p, either p or its negation; Fine (1977), fleshing out ideas of Prior, defines a possible world to be a consistent proposition w that is total in the sense that, for every proposition p, w entails either p or its negation.

For this PGDB, the reaction gap-filler did not help, as EcoCyc was already well curated in the sense of containing the required reactions, such that no truly missing reactions are needed to be imported from MetaCyc.

In this regard, while no transcriptome generated in this way can realistically be "complete" in the sense of containing full length transcripts for all expressed genes, we propose that for many evolutionary developmental biology studies, the approach described here is a useful one for fast, high-throughput gene discovery.

Djokovic has constructed his entire career on a sense of contained rage, keeping the beast within known confines.

My feeling was that 3-D could actually be a weapon to create that sense of contained space.

The grid's density varies and its gauge compresses towards the top to give a sense of contained energy, like a compressed spring.

It works best in the fight scenes, where the speed of Mr. Clug's style locks into a song's sense of contained agitation finally erupting.

Perhaps because their compression adds a sense of contained energy lacking in the larger works, or because their basic shapes are more graceful, they seem more resolved than the other examples.

As an actor he has always been willing to blend his immense, almost boyish charm with a sense of contained violence, suggesting something darker behind the bright smile and accommodating patter.