Sentence examples for sway toward from inspiring English sources

Moreover, what Bening constructs with such finesse is a woman who, like an Ibsen protagonist, both yields to and resists the pressures of her time; it is because she is not typical that our sympathies sway toward her.

What interests me is not the details of the gossip that enfolds these performers but the manner in which their weakness — their natural sway toward tribulation — feeds into their work onscreen.

Just as the Republican takeover of Congress under Newt Gingrich preceded a sweeping second-term win for Bill Clinton, a sway toward the red this year could help insure a swing back toward the blue by 2012.

Nor was this sway toward socialism triggered by Sanders's candidacy: as far back as 2011, a Pew poll revealed, fully 49% of Americans (not just Democrats) under 30 had a positive view of socialism, while just 47% had a favorable opinion of capitalism.

In the great battle between Lyft and Uber, my allegiance (that is, my money) tends to sway toward the first one.

Because the water gives way, the lizard naturally tends to sway toward its weight-bearing foot, and if it lists too far, it will topple just like a person running in soft sand.

The new work sways toward the latter.

"The building swayed toward the Southeast, then the North.

Sometimes during performances she closed her eyes and just swayed toward the microphone.

One night, conversation swayed toward middle-school applications and then, less depressingly, what to name a baby if you want her to become a country singer.

The thinking was that a woman undecided over an unwanted pregnancy could be swayed toward abortion by knowing that her decision could help someone else.