Sentence examples for vision upon from inspiring English sources

Throughout his life, Jay cultivated the kind of cultural and humanistic vision upon which public television and all our society's highest aspirations rest.

And, sure enough, the much-anticipated thunderbolt soon strikes: "Clara would have found it more satisfactory if, upon vision, upon the instant of meeting, a sudden lightning had descended".

After three nonfiction books and countless magazine articles, I developed the conviction that novels contained the real writing, in which the author didn't just take the world as he found it but actually imposed his own vision upon it.

For 13 years, John Randel Jr. wrestled the wildness of the island as he imposed his vision upon it: gone, in his mind's eye, were the hills and ponds, the towering chestnut trees, the unruly outcroppings.

In "My Best Friend's Wedding" many of the funniest lines and scenes — that crucial twenty per cent — were the work of the director, P. J. Hogan, and Rupert Everett, who played Julia Roberts's gay friend George....Calley waves away the very idea that a screenwriter could impress his voice and vision upon the public.

By section 5778 a food is adulterated if a valuable ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it, and the effect of this provision vision upon skimmed milk is qualified only by section 12720 which states the stringent terms upon which alone that substance can be sold.

Also, subjects with ungradable images were more likely to be older and have poor vision, although (upon investigation) this did not appear to have much effect on our prevalence estimates.

Indeed, Rey's visions upon touching Luke's lightsaber see both Kylo Ren's destruction of Luke's Jedi Academy, and her own abandonment on Jakku.

One of the most feverishly discussed, mysterious moments in Star Wars: The Force Awakens sees young scavenger Rey beset with strange visions upon touching Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, found hidden within Maz Kanata's establishment.

On the other end of the continuum, landscapes could be modified according to royal will; kings and their planners imposed their particular political, economic, demographic, and cosmological visions upon the surrounding land.

(Traditionally, the first one of these to topple is Jesus Christ, and everyone who has passed 33 has ruefully conceded that they have failed to establish a world religion by that age. At least God had the decency to wait until Muhammad was 40 before bestowing his visions upon him).