Sentence examples for try to awake from inspiring English sources

The consequent emotional tension is like that of an anxiety dream from which you try to awake but cannot.

"If you try to awake a sleeping giant, you should do it slowly and very smoothly, because if he moves too fast he will destroy a lot of things.

As we seek to make our own escape from a conservative decade and try to awake from the nightmare of the past 20 years, we could do a lot worse than look beyond the stereotyped accounts of the 90s and try to recover their undertow of disaffection and supressed idealism.

For James Joyce's double, Stephen Dedalus, history was a nightmare from which one must try to awake.

Joyce's Stephen Dedalus said history was a nightmare from which he was trying to awake.

Brexit is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.

History is a nightmare from which the CAR is still trying to awake.

But Congo's history is a nightmare from which its people are trying to awake.

"History", remarked James Joyce's literary alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, "is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake".

China, too, is trying to awake from its history, as evidenced by a growing push-and-pull over political rights and the spoils of economic reform.

Freddie is told not to blink, a vein bulges and beats in his forehead, and he slaps himself hard, three times, as if trying to awake from the bad dream of being who he is, or was.