Sentence examples for universal situations from inspiring English sources

As in a fairytale, and arguably in The Winter's Tale itself (the phrase meant a folk tale to Shakespeare's original audience), the protagonists are universal types placed in universal situations designed to highlight the basics of human response to the raw events of life, from birth to sex to death.

The night sky presents one of the few universal situations in which all humans can experience a profound sense of awe.

In fact, each episode presents a universal situation that pushes a particular issue of culture within the African-American community.

She had the extra satisfaction of winning with a story which, though set in the New South Wales outback, is a defiantly "could be anywhere" novel about universal human situations.

His conclusion was that Westerners were more comfortable with truths applied universally to every case, while Indians resisted the universal, preferring situation-specific solutions.

In Parfit's example (which is labeled Schelling's Answer to Armed Robbery because it draws on Thomas Schelling's view that "it is not a universal advantage in situations of conflict to be inalienably and manifestly rational in decision and motivation" (Schelling 1960 , 18), a robber breaks into someone's house and orders the owner, call him Moe, to open the safe in which he hoards his gold.

Our study results demonstrate that in defined hospital departments (e.g., neonatology, ICUs, oncology, transfusion medicine, burn units) or in outbreak situations universal screening is not only medically but also economically viable.

We develop a new automated reasoning technique for the situation calculus that can handle a class of queries containing universal quantification over situation terms.

Archetype, (from Greek archetypos, "original pattern"), in literary criticism, a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.

Audiences obviously didn't feel it that it dealt in the "Uncle Tom racism" it was accused of by some US critics; the comedy might have been broad at times, but taking a social situation universal across the developed world – integration of immigrants – definitely qualifies as an I-can't-believe-nobody-thought-of-this-before stroke of inspiration.

According to a source familiar with the situation, Universal has held talks with Grouper and Bolt in an effort to form partnerships with the companies that would enable Universal to earn revenue from their use of its content.