Sentence examples for taking upon from inspiring English sources

Mr. Nitsch said that his mutilation of a dead lamb was a way of taking "upon myself the apparently negative, unsavoury, perverse, obscene, the passion and the hysteria of the act of sacrifice so that YOU ARE spared the sullying, shaming descent into the extreme".

The risk here would be political: the Fed would be taking upon itself to intervene in the markets.

That is a task worth taking upon ourselves this Fourth: to celebrate our freedom not as a legacy well over two centuries old, but as something newly won and freshly consecrated.

Citing her subject's own take on the connection, from "Footprints" (which she gently compares with wishful "bedtime stories" composed by Mrs. Astor "for her own comfort"), she explains, "in agreeing to marry Vincent she was taking upon herself the task of making him happy, while doing her best to undo the damage caused by his mother's early mockery and neglect".

He aims, like Joyce's Stephen Dedalus taking upon himself the woes of Ireland, to be a national conscience, reminding his newly Europeanized, sleekly prosperous compatriots of their shaming past a legacy of guilt left by the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, who ruled the country from 1932 to 1968, and by the brutality of his colonial regime in Africa.

He aims, like Joyce's Stephen Dedalus taking upon himself the woes of Ireland, to be a national conscience, reminding his newly Europeanized, sleekly prosperous compatriots of their shaming past — a legacy of guilt left by the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, who ruled the country from 1932 to 1968, and by the brutality of his colonial regime in Africa.

In the early eighties, Trilling explains, Iowa "took upon itself a special responsibility for Southeast Asian refugees….

He took upon himself the entire range of activities required in the creation of a movie.

It's understandable how much responsibility we women take upon ourselves in these situations.

This body has taken upon itself to counter everyargument advanced by the Tel.

They have taken upon themselves a task that culturally cannot be worked out.