Sentence examples for the at once from inspiring English sources

One of those struggles is the at once basic and enormous task of how to grow up.

There is something compelling about the scrappy, exuberant Laura, and the at once foreign and familiar world she inhabited, that grabs girls.

All these sensations, memories, plans and anticipations of action occur within the private, subjective world encompassed by the at once familiar and mysterious words "I" and "me".

Like Gumby, Rhodes-Pitts is clearly very much enthralled by "something too vast to be contained on paper" and so has chosen the at once arbitrary and exhaustive medium of collage.

Phillips's own recent novel, the at once technically virtuosic and humanly moving "The Tragedy of Arthur," takes the form of an introduction to a newly discovered Shakespeare play (and includes the text of the play itself), and is clearly a descendant of "Pale Fire".

According to Grosseteste, time is "the privation of the at-once of eternity from the totality of being" (Dales 1963a, 96).

Grosseteste appears to equate this relation of dependence with the relation of adherence to the at-once of eternity mentioned in his account of time.

Grosseteste defines the instant, by which he means the now, as this adherence of being with the at-once of eternity, and likewise defines past and future in terms of this adherence.

He means that for there to be time there must be items whose existence does not adhere as a whole, as he puts it, with the at-once of eternity, that is, whose existence is not instantaneous.

Serve the dish at once with the rice.

The governor beheaded the man at once.