Sentence examples for the classic instance of from inspiring English sources

The classic instance of this is Marlow's belated understanding of the arrows hitting the boat in Heart of Darkness Critics have connected delayed decoding to impressionism and phenomenology, and Conrad himself described his literary task as "to make you hear, to make you feel... before all, to make you see".

In this classic instance of blaming the victim, the fault lies with a failure of resolve; self-respect was just not strong enough to rise to the occasion in a positive way.

The classic instance is the role of the civil rights struggle in preparing the ground for the anti-Vietnam war movement.

These initially met with scepticism, since economists and most other people are familiar with "the tragedy of the commons"—the idea that a scarce resource will be inefficiently over-exploited (as in the case of over-fishing, the classic instance).

The classic instance came in 1998, at a meeting of the American Musicological Society in Boston, where he faced off with apologists for Solomon Volkov's discredited book "Testimony," which purported to be memoirs of Shostakovich as told to Mr. Volkov.

The classic instance is where the investor wants 51percentt of your business.

The classic instance is a polluting factory.

As Darryl Jones says, in his introduction to the new edition, here is a classic instance of the vagina dentata — the epitome of what Jones calls "the monstrous-feminine," and one wonders whether James, merrily frightening his friends on a Cambridge night, realized how closely his fright verged on the explicit.

It calls the New London case a classic instance of "the unethical and unconstitutional marriage of convenience between developers and government".

On the surface it seemed a classic instance of what the historian Daniel Boorstin once described as a "pseudo-event," an exercise in public relations masquerading as news.

The result, in Taylor's view, is a classic instance of the law of unintended consequences: because the federal government won't support most stem cell research, the work must be sponsored by private industry.