Sentence examples for sort of descent from inspiring English sources

A first novel with epic affinities whose heroine, a dweller in the Australian outback, experiences something like conversion when she meets an Armenian lad whom she pursues, with their child, all the way to Yerevan -- a sort of descent into hell -- hoping for rediscovery and renewal.

A first novel with epic affinities whose heroine, a dweller in the Australian outback, experiences something like conversion when she meets a handsome Armenian lad whom she pursues, with their child, all the way to Yerevan -- a sort of descent into hell -- hoping for rediscovery and renewal.

I mean, the book is a sort of descent into madness, and more about a kind of puffed-up bureaucrat feeling humiliated that he's not being recognized," says Ayoade in our new documentary on The Double (viewable above).

That sort of started this descent into armchair psychology of why people do the things that they do".

"We must determine the border, the most northerly of the Russian shelf," Mr. Chilingarov said on national television before the dive, which was billed as the first of its sort — a descent into the inky darkness far beneath a large window cut into the ice sheet by a nuclear-powered ice breaker.

And when the nukes failed to go off as predicted, it was simply a case of switching the scenery and replacing the big bang either with some sort of eco-disaster, or with a descent into postmodern social chaos, Blade Runner-style.

Cats can also spread their legs out to create a sort of parachute effect, says Andrew Biewener, a professor of organismal and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, although it is unclear how much this slows the rate of descent.

Only the speed of descent would differ.

After 44 minutes and 17 seconds of this sort of thing, our perpetual motion machine begins its descent back to what we will laughingly refer to as reality.

(A bathyscaphe resembles a dirigible, and Piccard and Walsh's descent, a United States Navy project, was a sort of inverse balloon ride.

It's the sort of trouble that often hits the sequel to a beloved title, in this case Frictional Games' Amnesia: The Dark Descent.