Sentence examples for stretch an idea from inspiring English sources
Now I prefer to stretch an idea as far as it will go, then a little further.
This is far from the first time Paterson has stretched an artistic idea over a seemingly impossible scale or measure of time.
She thought that the second installment saw the series "stretching a clever idea too thin", and that a "one-hour 'Mirror' would have made more sense in terms of the pacing and for Enterprise as a whole".
In practice, this means emptying out such rituals of their meaning and using them for secular ends, a kind of spiritual pick 'n' mix.Although Mr de Botton is a clever man, he often stretches a good idea beyond its elastic limit.
He sometimes stretches a given idea or a circumstance ad nauseum (oftentimes I felt that I might be reading an avatar of "The Selfish Gene" only four decades later).
You might only pick up a book because you can't bear to tell your colleague you spent another night Instagramming your cat – but that book might stretch a muscle or trigger an idea that makes you try something new.
Similarly when someone had the idea to stretch a vine between the ends of a bent stick the first bow was born and you can be sure the first arrow soon followed.
So then, get plucky with your ideas and stretch a lengthy bow across your music collections to suggest songs or pieces heavily featuring any or all of the above.
But, that the delta buys Amazon much material latitude to change how it invests in other business seems like a stretch of an idea.
The scientists explore the "experience-stretching hypothesis," an idea first proposed by Daniel Gilbert, who expresses his theory in anecdotal form: A man who is given a drink of water after being lost in the Mojave Desert may at the moment rate his happiness level as 10 out of 10.
Ari Polish, Chicago Etiquette once proscribed conversation about politics or religion at most social events -- a dance, a dinner party and presumably a doctor's office (although that does stretch my idea of a social event, no matter how genial your professional manner).
