Sentence examples for the act of surrender from inspiring English sources

He compared the act of surrender in a chapel to what happens to a person when they surrender to the doctor.

She affects an arch carelessness to shore up her already established paternal approval; and yet she does care, so the act of surrender is both cowardly and inauthentic.

"The surrender of the will is itself impossible merely to will," he writes, "and we may struggle with the act of surrender more deeply than we struggle with the act of rebellion".

I love the act of surrender and I believe additionally that this "God of our own understanding" is also within us, and it is a source that I can tap into and embody through daily spiritual practice.

Witnesses had testified that Brown was in the act of surrendering.

In slow, backward-arching lunges, the dancers lift their arms to the sky — an act of surrender, or supplication.

Some witnesses have reported seeing Brown's arms in the air — an act of surrender.

Oh, the hellish spite and madness of a man that will murder a reasonable and noble-hearted officer, in the act of submitting and surrendering!" Some accounts claim that Captain George Beckwith killed Colonel Ledyard, while others claim it was Captain Stephen Bromfield, who assumed command after Major Montgomery was killed.

He must have been highly tempted to pick it up and throw it in front of the umpire as an act of surrender.

As people raised their hands, Pastor Jamal Bryant, one of the demonstrations organisers, said the gesture was not an act of surrender.

The performance is a fearless act of surrender.