Sentence examples for the wager of from inspiring English sources

It is we who stand accused, who fall short, who have not accepted the wager of imagining the unimaginable, of cracking Plath's code of atrocity.

The wager of Mass-Observation - itself whelped by surrealism - was that studying the gestures and habits of a society could give access to its communal unconscious.

The greater drama of 1808 fits this tragic love story into the cosmic frame of a wager between God and Mephisto, modeled on the wager of God with Satan in the biblical book of Job.

The wager of the British Eurosceptics is based on a double premise: taking advantage of the single market and the euro while remaining outside it; and being a "hub" of a globalised economic space.

The wager of battle was not always available to the defendant in an appeal of murder.

In 1815, three years before Ashford v Thornton, an appeal of murder was brought in Dublin in O'Reilly v Clancy, and the defendant demanded the wager of battle.

THESE are hard times for the wagers of the war on terror.

But it may not snag the wagers of JPMorgan's Whale.

While the jockeys and the horses always get attention, it's the wagering, of course, that keeps the operation in the black.

The central wager of Otherwise than Being is to express affectivity in its immediacy, with minimal conceptualization.

The judge for the wager, the editor of Field magazine, declared Wallace the winner, but Hampden refused to accept the result.