Sentence examples for spoken of in a from inspiring English sources

It is nice to see him spoken of in a positive way, for a change.

Utopia is often spoken of in a general, imprecise way, to characterize any conception of the state that is considered an unrealizable ideal.

"No place, date or event in this conflicted land is spoken of in a common language," Bronner wrote in The Times last year after the three-week Israeli assault on Gaza, intended to stop rocket fire into southern Israel.

In the first lines of the eighth chapter of the Categories (8a25 26) Aristotle observes that quality is among those things that are spoken of in a number of ways an affirmation which seems to imply that quality is not a highest genus, as, according to Aristotle himself, what is spoken of in a number of ways always gathers in several different natures.

Shift work was spoken of in a positive way and sometimes the only way to combine different roles in life.

We should be valued properly, not apologised for, and not spoken of in an embarrassed way.

I, too, would like to know why our state is spoken of in such a demeaning way.

I was just months past my twentieth birthday, with no work experience to speak of, in a world beyond my imagination.

The works illustrate four American ideals—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want that President Franklin Roosevelt spoke of in a 1941 State of the Union address on the eve of American involvement in WWII.

Throughout Suqian, Liu is spoken of in tones that suggest a mythic hero or a minor deity.

Wittgenstein, spoken of in some quarters as a second Christ or Pythagoras, was its secular high priest.