Sentence examples for spirit breaking from inspiring English sources

He expresses this experience of illumination given after mental striving in terms of the city seen intermittently by the approaching pilgrim or of the spirit breaking through the hard rind of the letter.

Enough cracks lead to a spirit breaking.

The author committed suicide in 1966, his spirit broken.

"A lesser Army might have seen its spirit broken," he said.

"The beauty of the people, their spirit, breaks through all their angst and history".

They tried mightily, but in the end England's spirit broke them.

Even a star can have his heart and his spirit broken.

Nalbandian, his spirit broken, put up only token resistance in the third set.

Then, with Britain's spirit broken, Cooper crashed over for his second touchdown, Fitzgibbon converting both.

Thus, the characteristic dialectic of the Holy Spirit is confirmed: the Spirit creates law and the Spirit breaks law even in the most recent manifestations of its working.

She vowed that she herself would never be pinned down, and her talent and untamed spirit broke hearts.