Sentence examples for shaped reality from inspiring English sources

The exhortations have shaped reality.

BRIC Power For centuries Christendom was an idea that shaped reality.

The Russian media have always shaped reality as much as they have reflected it.

This belief quickly shaped reality, as market analysts blurred the distinction between a growth slowdown and economic collapse.

The instrument thus had a performative effect; i.e. it shaped reality as well [ 21].

We see newspaper editors and parliamentarians shaping reality to suit their opportunism.

"He is like a Steve Jobs character," says Gross. "He can literally shape reality to his own will.

Festinger argued that when beliefs come into conflict with reality we think up explanations that shape reality to our beliefs, rather than vice versa.

To my mind, the most important phrase in his speech was the call to "try to shape reality, not only to serve as its collaborator".

He believed he had inherited his role as a kind of lexical commander in chief from medieval monks, whose literacy in a mostly illiterate world demonstrated the extraordinary power of words to shape reality.

For some, perhaps, art may be a hammer with which to shape reality, for others it's a window opening on a world seen in a compellingly new way.