Sentence examples for sense of settling from inspiring English sources

And, like a regrettable couch stain, this sense of settling for second place will never go away.

All the same, there was a quieter energy and a sense of settling in for a long game, along with hints of uncertainty about what a long game means, these days, for a progressive movement in the South.

In the tense slow movement, the group created chromatic layers of paper-thin sound that thickened very gradually like a creeping sense of dread settling on the ensemble.

He had, in fact, lost much of his interest in politics and retired into private life with a sense of relief, settling down to work on his History of England.

In the days that followed, a painful and disturbing sense of separation settled in.

An unmistakable — but not unpleasant — sense of responsibility settled on my shoulders the instant we left home.

He told me, "A tremendous sense of calm settled over her when the Snowden documents came out.

Smith brings out beautifully Madeleine's waspish irony, emotional withdrawal and permanent sense of having settled for less: she evenlistens attentively when the other character is speaking.

Last Friday, after days of upheaval left more than eighty people dead, a sense of calm settled on Kiev's Independence Square, known as Maidan, with the arrival of news that President Viktor Yanukovych had fled the city.

So when news spread that Spec's Records and Tapes would close this month after 65 years, a collective sense of melancholy settled over this city of graceful banyan trees and Mediterranean-style homes in Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County

A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.