Sentence examples for sense of wind from inspiring English sources

It's a good job we don't believe, as the ancient Greeks did, that wind is a punishment sent by the gods, although the poet Ian McMillan astutely observed that there is still a sense of wind as a curse, recalling that his mother used to talk about particularly bitter north-easterlies coming "straight from Siberia" as if to torment us.

There's a definite sense of winding down.

But if the deeper orchestral resonances dissipated into the night air, left behind is an acute sense of winds and brass in the higher registers.

Yes, she's in a different place, but there's definitely a sense of winding up exactly where you were before and repeating patterns.

"We want to recover our sense of the wind, the waves and the oceans," Dr. Sherman said.

flags that flew on the grandstand roof (all of them serving to give the players a sense of the wind speed and direction).

Nick Krewen of The Spectator describes it as "a ballad in the grand sense of Earth, Wind and Fire's 'Be Ever Wonderful.'" "Party Don't Cry" is a meditation on mortality with jazzy, philosophical tones.

Get a sense of the wind direction, and maneuver the board so that the sail is downwind of the board.

Hamas's leader, Khalid Meshal, arrives at those talks with a sense of regional winds at his back.

A brief poll of friends and acquaintances revealed the following as evidence of God's sense of humour: Aldershot Wind (of the body, not the weather) Nigel Rees Allergies to things we like (eg cats, flowers, penicillin) The Daily Express The three-toed Sloth George Bush I think that's a pretty good list to start with, but it is rather specific.

Eager to get out on deck and feel the momentous sense of setting out, of wind and weather and horizons, that surrounds a great ship as it glides out of port, I dashed up seven flights to an aft deck the moment I felt the ship stir.