Sentence examples for watch upon from inspiring English sources

"A relaxation of the watch upon the gates of Reason, the adoption of an attitude of uncritical self-observation, is by no means difficult," he innocently reported in "The Interpretation of Dreams".

On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason — so it seems to me — relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass. . . .

If we found a watch upon the ground, Paley argued, we would conclude from its intricate structure and function that it had been shaped for a purpose and must have had a maker.

But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there.

If you hesitate too long in exiting, be sure to check for your wallet and watch upon regaining consciousness.

[S]uppose I found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think … that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there.

Suddenly, as if in answer to his melancholic brooding, the dreaded Advisucats appeared from behind a brocaded tapestry of fabulous worth and tottered ominously toward the Throne of Watching upon which their liege King Samsor was ensconced near his wife Linda, such a nice lady.

The reality is that audiences would be bored to tears if they were forced to watch hour upon hour following the real inner workings of the CIA.

"He made me watch Once Upon A Time In America", she said miserably of the Sergio Leone love-letter to New York's violent past.

"You have to watch it!" Upon hearing those words — uttered by her friend Cassie, just a year older but, in her eyes, impossibly sophisticated — my daughter Lyra became infatuated with a TV show of which she can barely make heads or tails.

It sped things up, by predicting what users would want to watch based upon a knowledge graph of previous searches.