Sentence examples for thinking of war from inspiring English sources

Given a glimpse of the wounded front the South Pacific, even the most frivolous woman stops thinking of war as a thrilling game.

So too do Elster's often objectionable ramblings: there's something very queasy about his thinking of war, specifically Iraq, as a "haiku".

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has just praised Barack Obama in public .Two days ago, we heard the president of America say: 'We are not thinking of war with Iran.' This is good.

F. Trubee Davison had been Assistant Secretary of War for Air, in charge of American air forces and airplane production, during the Hoover administration, but Americans were not thinking of war or of airplanes then and the office was abolished as one of the government first economies in the depression.

For a book about the all-too-human "passions of war", my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon – honour, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth – it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.

"We get used to it". Many people do tire of thinking of war, though, and just wish that the whole topic would go away.

Most of those who speak approvingly of suicide-bombing are no doubt thinking of wars in far-off lands, rather than blowing up the local mall.

(Though I think it's safe to say that the PS3 has some life left in it, it's just going to take someone with a lot of money to actually develop a game from the ground up for the system. I'm thinking God of War III will be that game).

I am not thinking of this war but of the next one, 20 years from now.

"Their thinking of the war is anachronistic," said Yaron Ezrahi, one of Israel's most prominent political analysts.

But there are poignant clips of him on the voiceover; he talks about the danger of his work with the scary magical thinking of a war photographer.