Sentence examples for the subduing from inspiring English sources

"Growing up" is often equated with the subduing of desire, or a surrender to the reality of its inaccessibility.

In the title role, Henry Fonda has a long stride, a nose on loan from Pinocchio, and a winning homeliness of tone, which is used to unforgettable effect in the subduing of a lynch mob.

Firefighting direction will improve, rescue work will be far more efficient than with ladders, and radio instructions from aloft will speed the subduing of flames".

Every conscious decision to enhance human life—every attempt to rise above the animals—entails the subduing of nature and the repudiation of this environmentalist garbage that is espoused in this article.

Early in his career during the latter half of the 1820s, he participated in the subduing of secessionist rebellions: first the Confederation of the Equator, and then the Cisplatine War, which precipitated a long international armed conflict with the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

This is a re-enactment of the subduing of the worldly gods, a common theme in Tibetan Buddhism, recalling the initial control exerted over the landscape by the incoming religion (Ramble 1999).

Stanford replaced the subdued Harris with the more aggressive Harbaugh.

Its set spanned the primal and the convoluted, the subdued and the manic.

Over the subdued E major hum in the orchestra, the main theme slowly unfolded.

He brought haunting restraint to the subdued opening theme, with its slow-march gait.

It's kind of like the subdued, minimal version of that".