Sentence examples for stuff of experience from inspiring English sources

They take the raw stuff of experience, melt it in the crucible of their sensibility, shape it with their dramatic sense, and deliver it as a complex and refined finished product — a good story.

For Kant the puzzle was to explain the possibility of a priori judgments that were also synthetic (i.e., not merely explicative of concepts), and the solution that he proposed was the doctrine that space, time, and the categories (e.g., causality), about which we were able to make such judgments, were forms imposed by the mind on the stuff of experience.

Nobody who makes movies can ever do anything else but reveal himself on film, and what Mills brings out in "20th Century Women" is a confounding combination of imaginative effort to face and represent the tough stuff of experience and a trivializing, facile, and complacent approach to that experience — and both aspects are essential to the film's critical success.

"These aren't shadows cast upon a cavern wall but the stuff of political experience itself".

He takes faith from the 'solid and availing stuff of our experience'.

He also revered the stuff of human experience: the warmth of relationships; the bonds of friendship, family, community.

A monologist who wrote nearly all her own material, Ms. Carroll found her humor in the stuff of everyday experience: clothing, shopping, social life and family.

It might not be the stuff of everyday experience, but neither is it saying that a voyage on the seas of love is all plain-sailing.

All this is a pity because when he begins putting over the raw stuff of Somali experience the novel and the language itself tighten up and come alive.

He said: "I do not accept Miss Judd's submission that a child failing to follow boundaries set by a parent is part of the ordinary stuff of parental experience or, as she put it, a common or garden matter.

There's nothing neoclassical about her movie it's an exemplary work of modern cinema, made with an impressive curiosity and spontaneity but it takes its place in the front rank of movies that extend genre by infusing it with the stuff of lived experience, of which, for movie artists such as Seimetz, movie-watching itself is a crucial part.