Sentence examples for turned a passage from inspiring English sources

His tempos have generally worked for me, and they did here, even when he turned a passage from "Solace: A Mexican Sere- nade" into a sort of dreamy medi- tation.

Any competent copy editor can turn a passage that is turgid, opaque, and filled with grammatical errors into a passage that is turgid, opaque, and free of grammatical errors.

Turn! Turn!," which turned to a passage from the Bible — "to everything there is a season" — for the lyrics.

He turned 21 last week, which we have turned into a passage all its own.

During this period, Turkey turned a blind eye to the passage of thousands of militants through its territory on their way to join ISIS and permitted wounded ISIS fighters to be treated in Turkish hospitals.

Cuban migrants arriving in southern Mexico last month told VICE News that they had encountered few problems up to that point, aside from the need to pay bribes so that immigration officials in countries further south turned a blind eye to their passage.

The nature of sin and temptation is a frequent topic of discussion throughout the bible - simply turn to a passage like Romans 7 18 for an illuminating perspective on the difficulty of struggling against temptation: "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not".

Both said that Syria, despite promises to the Iraqi central government, continues to turn a blind eye to the passage of funds, militants and munitions over the border.

I turned The Passage's pages feverishly to find out what happened next.

The rock musical has become the live-performance equivalent of the road movie: a ubiquitous convention turned rite of passage as one aspirant after another seeks to achieve its perfect fulfillment.

Pulling down a worn copy of what is clearly the favorite of the 12 books he has written (a 13th is nearly done), he turned to a key passage: "Infantile paralysis was different from any other crisis Franklin had faced during his almost 40 years.