Sentence examples for tended to invoke from inspiring English sources

"Even his admirers," Ms. Mayer writes, "tended to invoke metaphors involving knives".

Whistler's Nudes In the mid-19th century, when artists tended to invoke mythology or history or exotic settings to evade disapproval of public nudity, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) almost never did.

Traditionally, natural law theorists tended to invoke God for their solution to this very deep mystery.

Through the coding processwe found that when interviewees were asked to describe their own work they tended to invoke other workers in comparison.

(Anchors tend to invoke Murrow on ascending to, and on leaving, their jobs).

People tend to invoke Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren's definition of privacy in 1890 as the "right to be let alone".

In disputes over the construction and expansion of mosques in California, New York, Tennessee and elsewhere, supporters of the projects tend to invoke constitutional principles of religious freedom.

His extremism was not simply of the small-government variety, although that is what those who venerate him tend to invoke.

Addington's talent for bureaucratic infighting is such that some of his supporters tend to invoke, with admiration, metaphors involving knives.

When people are violent, explanations for their behavior tend to invoke some sort of breakdown: a lack of self-control, the dehumanization of an "outgroup," or perhaps sadistic psychological tendencies.

In the endless debates about what constitutes "fake news," we tend to invoke clear cases of unfounded rumor or outright deceit ("Melania has a body double," or "President Trump saves two cats from drowning after Hurricane Harvey").