Sentence examples for thing consisting of from inspiring English sources

What counts as a community's morality is always a double thing, consisting of the conventional morality of a previous generation in tension with the contested, evolving values under negotiation at any one time in the public debate.

Viewers will doubtless be reminded of last year's Project Farm: The Dullening storyline – a grey, interminable thing consisting of clipboards, folded arms and explosive references to the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

Or possibly even the disjoint thing consisting of both the cat and the dog?

The whole thing consists of a few dozen shots, with the camera moving only when it needs to.

That is, if knowing a thing consists of having its form and species in one's intellect, then it appears that the form and species, not the thing, is what is known.

The difficulty is that Poland's voters, having put ex-communists into both the cabinet and the presidency since 1989, seem to have a different view of what the right thing consists of.

For those weary biennial followers who fear that painting died in the late 1980's (one visitor to the current Venice Biennale said, "The whole thing consists of dark rooms stuffed with videos"), Mr. Hickey offers fond reminders of painting's ability to "offer visual pleasure".

This slimy looking thing consists of acetic acid bacteria and cellulose.

The internet of things consists of the billions of connections, a kind of universal global neural network in the computing cloud, that is expected to make almost every aspect of our lives "connected" in the future.

In the 1830s, Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden had proposed, on the basis of what they had seen under the microscope, that all living things consisted of fundamental units called cells.

Alder indirectly suggests that he agrees with Lavoisier; a great deal of "The Measure of All Things" consists of what sometimes seems to be an hour-by-hour recounting of the progress of the measurement parties, which were supposed to complete their work in a year but somehow took seven.