Sentence examples for the thing in which from inspiring English sources

Then there is the fact that, like any one person or institution, the state is rightly proud of the thing in which it is most successful.

We meet a great man and cannot talk to him, because, alas, we happen not to be able to get interested in the thing in which he excels.

The obvious alternative is to reverse that order, start with what we want and then look for features that might promote the thing in which we are ultimately interested.

None of them are better than Here's The Thing, in which Alec Baldwin has splendidly nosey conversations with everyone from Billy Joel to Penn Jillette via Amy Schumer.

(He was inspired by the mood of John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing," in which a group of characters trapped in an Arctic outpost are, one by one, taken over by a monstrous alien parasite).

The 1980s also saw a trend towards the vernacular, spearheaded by Bill Lancaster's dialogue for The Thing, in which characters reacted not with philosophical musings about hills of beans or, "We'll always have Antarctica", but by uttering the sort of banalities you or I might say if we'd just glimpsed a head sprouting spider legs and scuttling across the floor: "You've got to be fucking kidding".

And it's persuasive precisely because it talks about the things in which it has expertise, and those are things in which its customers are interested.

You may protest that the things in which this information is stored — photos, the location of clothing, a scrap of paper — are not very mindlike.

But they are guided by the Bible's reminder that faith is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". The things in which they place their faith are not demonstrable in any laboratory.

People come to the Sub to be in the swing of things, and the things in which they're swinging tend to reflect a blend of business and small-scale creative art.

The comparatively brief entries in the encyclopaedic dictionary had, by accident of the alphabet, fragmented knowledge to such an extent that users received only a disjointed knowledge of the things in which they were interested.