Sentence examples for the measure of things from inspiring English sources

What is my sense of the measure of things?

Brahms stands back and takes the measure of things more".

In the measure of things, the loss is small.

As for whether he will ultimately plunge into the presidential race, Mr. Edwards insisted that he was only "taking the measure of things".

It was Raina and Dhoni who transformed the match for India at a time when the England bowlers appeared to have the measure of things.

I think what he was saying was, 'There are more to some things than meet the eye.' " And, to extend the notion, one must take the measure of things, investigate, do not make assumptions based purely on mainstream perceptions.

A key text is the famous 'Man the Measure' sentence, the opening sentence of his work entitled 'Truth', which runs 'Man is the measure of all things, of the things that are that they are and of the things that are not that they are not' (Plato, Theaetetus 151e, Sextus Against the Mathematicians VII.60 (=DK 80B1)).

One is that man is the measure of all things; the other, that all things can be measured by man.

The point of the image is not that man is the measure of all things; it is that man can, like all things, be measured.

Likewise, Cornford suggests, the Protagorean doctrine that "man is the measure of all things" is true provided it is taken to mean only "all things that we perceive".

"In some ways, seeing this as entirely about commerce reflects the most dangerous thing in modern life," he said, which was seeing "money as the measure of all things".