Sentence examples for what alter from inspiring English sources

As if by returning to the past or recapturing it precisely or well enough we could – what – alter it?

"I make a whole concept for him, what I think he should be dressed like, what alter ego he should have.

Look at what Alter does with the last three verses of Psalm 23, that loyal retainer at funerals and memorial services.

But with a great actor's sense of instinct, Roosevelt rose to the occasion, converting all of these tensions into what Alter calls "an exquisite piece of political theater".

What Alter does with the Bible instead is read it, with erudition and rigor and respect for the intelligence of the editor or editors who stitched it together, and -- most thrillingly -- with the keenest receptivity to its darker undertones.

God is merciful and just but is also seen as what Alter calls "a warrior god on the model of the Canaanite Baal riding through the skies with clouds as his chariot, brandishing lightning bolts as his weapons".

But what altered?

"What alters the imagination," he said, "alters everything.

What altered was a notion of what art could or ought to be.

As Hughes said, back in 1970, when he was reviewing a book abut the environmental revolution: "What alters the imagination alters everything".

Given the news blackout on the negotiations, it is impossible to know what altered the Israeli and American leaders' outlooks, or indeed how much they may have improved after the meeting nearly crashed and burned on Wednesday.