Sentence examples for take utter from inspiring English sources

Whatever the deep roots of this paralysis, it's becoming increasingly clear that it will take utter catastrophe to get any real policy action that goes beyond bank bailouts.

They never won, but they took utter joy in pursuing the sport that spoke to them most profoundly.

Only a monster could have read about Jude's abuse without feeling sick at heart, and the novel took utter advantage of that susceptibility, to ends that were neither realistic nor allegorical, that I could discern, merely operatic.

Mr. Vaughn said the man refused to take it, uttering a racial epithet and saying he would never vote for a black man.

Take it," uttered in 1913 to the crowd assembled to watch the water cascade through the first Los Angeles aqueduct, in the Newhall hills.

Take Socrates' utterance of 'Socrates utters a falsehood', where Socrates utters nothing else.

It is a frivolous job that must be taken with utter seriousness.

Wills takes with utter seriousness the text (John 14 6) that says that Christ is truth.

But these "next big things" rarely hang around longer than it takes to utter the phrase.

This is because verbal memory is language-based and limited not just by the number of items but also by how long it takes to utter them.

Flanner, though censorious about what she considered his early flippancy when it came to the writer's life and craft, something she took with utter solemnity, acknowledged his abilities at last.