Sentence examples for the present occasion from inspiring English sources

Rosenberg has been out of intellectual fashion for so long that his dashing eloquence may come as a glad shock, to many, on the present occasion.

For the present occasion he is given the whole fifth floor (apart from the mezzanine level) for a survey that stretches from youthful drawings to his textbook paintings of buildings and rooms carved from slabs of light.

(Sony Classical has just reissued the revered Leonard Bernstein recordings of the symphonies, with the Philharmonic performing all but the Eighth, on 12 CDs in partnership with Carnegie Hall to commemorate the present occasion).

(In the nineteen-sixties, the critic Clement Greenberg, acting as the executor of the estate of David Smith, removed paint from some of the great sculptor's abstract works, thinking thereby to improve them — a scandal germane to the present occasion, though not cited).

"Of the innumerable effects, or impressions, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on the present occasion, select?" "The Raven," unfortunately, does not settle on just one, preferring the usual moviemaking practice of multiplying effects until they pile up into a welter of breathless incident and preposterous exposition.

These are thoughts one has on the present occasion and so are mental states; and they are items of awareness and thus accessible to reflective awareness.

Teresa had guessed that the present bleak occasion would be in the hands of Mrs. O'Daly, who in her capable countrywoman's way would have offered to see to things.

This is a process whereby divine future activity is "infused" into the present actual occasion (Ibid., 253).

It is a vehicle of status aspiration and competition, an ever-present occasion for snobbery, one-upmanship and social aggression.

Drawing a link to the present, Abbas used the occasion of the "incredibly sad commemoration of Holocaust Day" to urge Israel's government "to take this opportunity to achieve just and comprehensive peace" based on a two-state solution.

With the advantage of a longitudinal design and multiple sampling occasions, the present data strongly support the stability of the previously reported cross-sectional relationship between higher levels of inflammatory cytokines and less favorable health appraisals across individuals.