Sentence examples for supposed defeat from inspiring English sources

How you can cry in supposed defeat, frustration, and grief over a vocation that on the other hand gives you so much joy.

In act 2, when Tosca sings offstage the cantata that celebrates the supposed defeat of Napoleon, Puccini was tempted to follow the text of Sardou's play and use the music of Giovanni Paisiello, before finally writing his own imitation of Paisello's style.

The brief scene in which the sacristan returns with the choristers to celebrate Napoleon's supposed defeat provides almost the last carefree moments in the opera; after the entrance of Scarpia to his menacing theme, the mood becomes sombre, then steadily darker.

They do not appear to know, or care, that the Americans are not supposed to defeat France and Argentina, Italy and Brazil.

"How are we supposed to defeat Al Qaeda if we have two or three inches of snow and everything shuts down?" he said.

The heavier costs come in international political terms and in giving a new life to precisely the weapons the defensive shield is supposed to defeat -- nuclear weapons.

Wars are supposed to defeat threats, not grow them.

Reduced activity of brain dopaminergic systems was supposed in defeated animals [17].

They have won the games they were supposed to win, defeating Columbia and Marshall at home and Temple on the road.

The defeat was supposed to mark the end of American credibility, and so of our influence — except, of course, that it didn't.

"It was supposed that after his defeat it would be preposterous to ask him to sit," Brady said later in an interview.