Sentence examples for the very exercise from inspiring English sources

Commanding as Ellison's arguments are, there remains a whit of defensiveness in the very exercise.

For many, the very exercise of voting, going back to finish what was started, offered some comfort and pride.

She has made no secret of her assiduous debate preparation, and I couldn't help feeling that she had prepared for the very exercise I was engaged in.

He takes pleasure in the money that he moves from his clients' pockets to his own, but he also takes pleasure from the very exercise of power over his victims.

By closing off Capitol Hill as an avenue of national progress — by seeking repeal of the A.C.A. instead of reforming it, by obstructing even the most routine Presidential appointments, by turning congressional oversight into a theatre of the absurd — the G.O.P. invites the very exercise of executive authority that it loudly deplores.

Rather than providing an external foundation for morality, it holds that in forming our intentions and beliefs, we are answerable to criteria of correctness that are internal to and constitutive of the very exercise of rationality (Korsgaard 2008, 13 15, 110 126, 207 229).

The very exercises were extremely demanding.

For listeners, however, this very exercise runs the risk of creating its own ennui.

Perhaps the hackers will take notice of it, and then, I can tell them to (at the very least) exercise discretion in their information dump (i.e. leave the single gay arab guy out of it).

The papers were very exercised by the fact that Jefferies was "posh" and "loved culture and poetry".

Équipe [team] – the very word exercises a noble influence on the heart of our group – an influence that was exerting itself during a time of rage and hope when our collective will was placed in the service of the Resistance".