Sentence examples for the given of from inspiring English sources

The film offers no background on the calamitous civil war that left the country in chaos -- the blasted, squalid urban landscapes are the given of the people's lives.

Esther Schor's poems live where the poet who must choose rhyme and rhythm; the wayward fortunes of travel, art and myth meets the given of everyday life: children and comets, punchlines and snow.

"I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant".

Yet what had been engraved in the Southern California memory as the given of the place, the irresistible upward momentum of a gross local product bigger than the gross national products of many Western nations, the momentum that created the parabolic sweeps of the interchanges and the unbroken habitation from the mountains to the sea, was for the time being just that, a memory.

This realism, accepted by all the mainstream neutral monists, plays the crucial role of stripping the given of its mentality.

This mainstream version of the doctrine finds the neutral elements in the immediate data of experience in the given of traditional empiricism.

The giving of rye whiskey and cigarettes, perhaps?

We promise something comparable for the giving of time.

It covers the giving of time, money or both.

The wanting of love, the giving of it.

That holiday commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.