Sentence examples for something to counteract from inspiring English sources

Nichols sought something to counteract his paralyzing sense of inadequacy and to disarm a world that he saw, and still sees, as predatory and cruel.

It's more wonderful still if Bridget has done something to counteract the culture of perfection and make people feel it's alright just to be alright.

Recognizing the wrongness of the behavior is important, but doing something to counteract the insidiousness of the bystander effect remains stubbornly difficult.

"When all the songs are about 'She's leaving, she's gone, she might come back for a while, but she's really leaving,' you need something to counteract it," he said.

I wanted to say something to counteract the perception of Shakespeare's compositional method as a kind of lyric soduku, and put in a word for the kind of glorious, messy procedure I'm quite certain it was, whatever the crystalline and symmetrical beauty of the final results.

Summers later provided the decider, an old-fashioned 3-point play on a layup with one minute remaining after a put-back dunk by Robinson had cut the Spartans' lead to 3. "Every time we made a run, they did something to counteract that," UConn guard A. J. Price said.

Something zingy to counteract the grease-heavy assault on the palate?

There is so much negativity in the world that you need something beautiful to counteract it.

Only when we played a team like Arsenal did we do something special to counteract them while remembering what we were good at.

I say it's for my health but it's not; it's an attempt to feel something severe to counteract the mundanity.

A leaderless small group can manage to give its members permission to administer tough love, but it takes something strong enough to counteract a group of friends' natural tendency to commiserate and soothe.