Sentence examples for suspension of the normal from inspiring English sources

It is noteworthy that Gothic fiction has always been approached in a spirit of deliberate suspension of the normal canons of taste.

"On polling day there would be a kind of suspension of the normal rules of society.

Believing certain events to be miraculous entails that such suspensions of the normal order of things are caused by incorporeal entities (angels or demons) acting on corporeal ones.

The suspension of the observers' normal activities has raised fears that, with the eyes and ears of the world no longer there to bear witness, the brutality might get even worse, though it had already reached pre-ceasefire levels before the suspension was announced.

The book Playing with Videogames called it "extraordinarily skillful and humorous", citing it as both a suspension of the game's normal purpose by players with "parodic humor" and one of the defining moments in machinima.

The use of masks and the suspension of normal tabus express the unstructured, unconditioned nature of the sacred.

The suspension of normal civilian rights and the existence of special "security courts" were a hallmark of the Mubarak regime, which maintained a permanent emergency law throughout the former dictator's reign.

Everything in Graves's description of the genesis of a poem seems designed to draw sceptical fire: "The nucleus of every poem worth the name is rhythmically formed in the poet's mind, during a trance-like suspension of his normal habits of thought, by the supra-logical reconciliation of conflicting emotional ideas".

The answer might seem obvious: after a temporary suspension, the normal interplay of democratic politics should resume.

The peptides were added to the suspension of normal RBC, or of RBC pre-incubated with valinomycin.

At what point is this temporary suspension of our normal consititution going to lead back to the normal way of things?