Sentence examples for under whose sway from inspiring English sources
Imagine that the mother in "Black Swan" was, instead, a father — one who had been widowed due to his late wife's adultery and who, with a moralistic grip, held his smart but damaged daughter in a state of ignorant inexperience; imagine that, after his daughter's death, he blamed the director under whose sway she fell and took his sinister, relentless revenge.
Where Apollo is the god of beautiful forms and images, Dionysus is the god of frenzy and intoxication, under whose sway the spell of individuated existence is broken in a moment of undifferentiated oneness with nature.
We hear from Toni Morrison and Representative Maxine Waters but find only passing reference to Suge Knight, the thuggish record executive under whose menacing sway Tupac spent much of his wild last years.
By whose armies, under whose command?
A merry-go-round whose seats swayed slowly in the wind.
Demand for greater democracy in Hong Kong is fuelled by profound dislike of an economic and social system that is a relic of colonial days and remains under the sway of a business elite whose members dominate Hong Kong's main organs of power.
Or at least, an Elton John under the sway of Malian singer Oumou Sangaré, whose idiosyncratic melodies and scales had such an impact on the young musician.
During the 1960s Mr. Johnston fell under the sway of Harry Partch, the iconoclastic microtonalist, whose influence is felt in the disorienting slurs and blurs of Mr. Johnston's String Quartet No. 5 (1979), a single-movement span in which the Appalachian gospel song "Lonesome Valley" is radically transformed but never disappears entirely.
The ministry pushed to follow the model of Singapore, whose investment agency, Temasek, manages $80 billion under the sway of the finance ministry there.
For this reason, epistemic norms or the standard set by the mundane convention of the ordinary beings, is poles apart from the epistemic norms set by the mundane convention of the noble beings (āryas / 'phags pa) whose mundane cognitive processes are not under the sway of afflictive confusion.
