Sentence examples for thing at hand from inspiring English sources

They see beyond the thing at hand to the mysterious relation it may have to another thing at hand — when an apple drops on their head, they ask what dark, occult force in the earth drew it there.

"The real thing at hand here is slavery," Peele remarked as he first began to take questions from the audience.

One of the first challenges in describing the sky is to find words that allow a reader to see the thing at hand, while resisting clichés.

I thought this piece of sculpture was the coolest thing ever, so I naturally wrote a story about it, because that's what you do in college — absent any real life experience, you write about the closest thing at hand.

For now, there is only one thing at hand, a shot at another gold medal, one more stab at the only glory their under-the-radar sport ever knows.

In an earlier decade, struggling to finish the job on a hot afternoon, he had cast about for a stick or something to twist tight a diagonal cross-brace wire, but the only thing at hand was a cow's bleached leg bone with its trochlea head, which seemed made to jam fence wire tight.

"We knew there were more important things at hand".

Our incapacity to deal with the things at hand is evident in our use of, and increasing reliance on, digital technology.

Zhu highlights the proposition that, "The student must devote himself to reality," in Reflections on Things at Hand (Chan 1967: 67, #62).

He also published critical, annotated editions of several classics, including the Book of Change (Yijing) and the Book of Odes (Shijing), essential works of Neo-Confucianism, including by Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, and the Cheng brothers, and a vital Neo-Confucian anthology, Reflections on Things at Hand (Jinsilu).

"It's up to each individual, but I think you move forward, move on to the bigger things at hand," he added.