Sentence examples for trace of something from inspiring English sources

A film image is created by light that leaves a material trace of something that exists — existed — in real time and space.

Because an image produced with a camera is, literally, a trace of something brought before the lens, photographs had an advantage over any painting as a memento of the vanished past and the dear departed.

He looked toward the uncertain outcome of the election with an air of acceptance and looked back over the road he had traveled with a trace of something akin to nostalgia for the extraordinary experience he had endured, no matter the outcome.

On the other hand, a trace of something may be no more than a sign of that object.

On the one hand, a trace of something can be that very thing, albeit in an attenuated state — one might say that the embers of a once roaring blaze are but a trace of the fire, but they arguably constitute that very fire in a late stage of its existence.

In the one case, then, a trace, or vestige, of something x is identical to x while in the other it is not.

Have you ever tasted traces of something to which others were oblivious?

But we also see the traces of something else — something avoided, perhaps, a reluctance to explore the man fully while paying him tribute.

It's hard for me to get excited about something unless there's at least a trace element of something funny, and hearing Bobby whine that he likes hairy asses still makes me giggle.

Were someone else's memory trace of doing something immoral copied into my brain (so that I "remembered" that person's action), it would be silly to think that it was mine for purposes of accountability, or that I was somehow thereby identical to the performer of that action (Schechtman 2005, 12).

It takes a female director, I think, to catch children, young and old, at these fragile hours, and also to trace a residue of something childlike in their elders.