Sentence examples for to wrest something from inspiring English sources
On one level, you could dismiss it as just posturing, a bargaining ploy over the years meant to wrest something new from the city — tax breaks or a stadium.
That attitude sums up much of the positive news that has leaked out about Giffords's progress and the happy spin put on it by an American media eager to wrest something good from an unbearably bleak event.
The three-floor, $7 million museum beckons visitors through a sequence of rooms that evoke the chaos of the explosion, the panicked hustle of rescue workers, the resolve of investigators and the determination of Oklahomans to wrest something meaningful from the wreckage.
It seems to me a primary task for the novelist to find expression for what's new in the present moment: to evolve an aesthetic to express it, to wrest something new out of the novel tradition, to fit a new age and capture it, get it down in words.
Part of the problem is that the screenplay by Sharman Macdonald (Ms. Knightley's mother) tries to wrest something profound from his bond with Vera, even as it fails to convince that the bond, woman or even the poet are worthy of all this attention.
His admirers (and cowed detractors) could then witness the awe-inspiring spectacle of the master wresting something from nothing – like God busily at work on his creation.
It was an attempt to wrest power away from something known as the legislative caucus, which was itself an attempt to wrest power away from the Electoral College.
The Jets, however, will try to wrest the division title outright (something they have never done since the American Football League and National Football League merger of 1970).
Renewal becomes heady: in WriteRoom's gloom is man's power to create something from nothing, to wrest form from formlessness.
Holding on is instinctive when something or someone tries to wrest what we thought was our very heritage from our grip.
Those phones – aimed at, I'm not making this up, "scheduling moms" (or something to that effect – were designed to wrest the final Motorola RAZRs from consumers around the world and replace them with smartphones.
