Sentence examples for take up a certain from inspiring English sources
"It's just a completely unconscious image that we have in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them".
Thus, in the seminal work of modern aesthetics Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790; The Critique of Judgment), Immanuel Kant located the distinctive features of the aesthetic in the faculty of "judgment," whereby we take up a certain stance toward objects, separating them from our scientific interests and our practical concerns.
(It might be worth noting that while this is plausible enough for the picture, considered as such, we do typically treat works of visual art as one-off individual objects (distinct from perfect copies or forgeries).) Moreover, the picture, to be seen, requires that viewers take up a certain cognitive attitude regarding it, not required to observe the painting.
If you ask me to give you a description of the pain I feel in my right foot, or of what I was just thinking about, I would reflect on it and thereby take up a certain perspective that was one order removed from the pain or the thought.
The inventory system of the game features a grid system, represented by an attaché case, that has each item take up a certain number of spaces.
As Delany wrote: "The easy argument... is that social institutions like porn [cinemas] take up a certain social excess are even, perhaps, socially beneficial to some small part of it (a margin outside the margin).
He is still taking up a certain number of starts that would have been made, and perhaps even won, by another regular.
Inside Northern Lights, we've managed to kid ourselves that we exist, that we're curvaceous or lumpy or angular, bristling with hair and snot, taking up a certain amount of room, and that space and time have generously accorded a margin in which we're invited to operate these sizable greedy bodies of ours, a margin in which to dwell, to hang out and live our pale stinky stories.
"I read Lives as an exploration of the boundaries between fiction and reality," says Atwood, "because in each of the stories the young girl takes up a certain kind of fiction or a story - sometimes it's a novel she gets from the library, sometimes it's the lurid National Enquirer type of newspapers, in one instance it's a relative who's writing an interminable history of the region.
The training sequence takes up a certain amount of transmission energy and hence reduces the overall system efficiency.
These files are stored as data in your hard drive, which takes up a certain amount of space.
