Sentence examples for sense of presenting from inspiring English sources

"A Separation," in presenting a collection of events as they fit together, loses the sense of presenting a world.

"It seems colleges have lost the sense of presenting places so that some kids are turned on and others are turned off," she says.

A check of the city's Web site gives some sense of present priorities.

My theory is that they're more visceral and so suggest a stronger sense of present tense.

Here, set in the blank concrete parking lots and blinding sunshine of California, teenage eyes are suspicious of every move, creating a sense of present danger.

"I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense," Mr. Pullman said.

Known as the "proportional theory", this idea posits that as we age, our sense of "present" time begins to feel relatively short in comparison to our entire lifespan.

In general, Kermode seems not to have a very strong sense of present-day theatre practice, telling us, for instance, that Philip Henslowe, Shakespeare's boss, was "the ancestor of the modern theatre mogul".

"There is no sense of present or future in Azzedine's work," Olivier Saillard, the museum's director and the curator of the exhibition, said earlier in the day on a tour of the show.

For good reason, many inner-city African-American youths feel the same alienation today, which is why hip-hop culture, in both its musical and cinematic manifestations, still purveys the two-for-one appeal that energized the Warner Brothers social melodramas of the 1930's: an urgent, gritty sense of present-tense veracity, combined with strapping fantasies of illicit power.

The findings suggest that an area of the brain implicated in emotion and rewarding behavior is important for constructing a sense of present reality.