Sentence examples for subject toward from inspiring English sources

Having headed off denials, you steer the subject toward a confession by offering a face-saving alternative.

Immediately, talk turned toward the usual subject, toward Floyd Mayweather Jr. and a potential clash between boxing's undisputed two best fighters.

"In his enthusiasm for his new job," the authors write, "Vincent took a characteristically sudden, feverish interest in a subject toward which he had shown no particular inclination before: art".

But when development economics first came into prominence in the 1950s, there were powerful intellectual and political forces propelling the subject toward such general theoretical models of development and underdevelopment.

Like Dyer, Sjöberg can't resist straying from his putative subject toward any nearby attraction, which is how, in a book about insects, we wind up learning about Ester Nordström.

After a French Jesuit, the Rev. Jacques Dupuis, published a book on the subject, "Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism," his writings were investigated by Cardinal Ratzinger's office for signs of heresy.

Some scholars, citing the original Star Wars trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983) as an example, have argued that in the 1970s the mutation went so far as to leap across the boundary of subject matter toward science fiction.

One of them, Naoya Hatakeyama, quietly gives the show its center of gravity, with large color images that push fairly rugged documentary subjects toward artifice.

The duty of Japanese subjects toward their emperor, she continued, "could be just as consistent with a world at peace as with a war-torn world, or it could be sloughed off in time as Japan's social objectives change".

By taking no unnatural action, he actualizes the Way within his own life; he also influences his subjects toward natural action and promotes a flourishing rather than a stagnant kingdom.

Only fragments by one writer, Menander, survive from this period, but they indicate a swing away from mythological subjects toward a comedy of manners, concentrating as they do on the erotic adventures of young Athenians and centring on urban family life.