Sentence examples for which we abandon from inspiring English sources

The world morphs into an unending reality TV show, in which we abandon the sheltering anonymity of ordinary life for the incessant glare of the camera and its audience.

Quite unmistakably Barry Fairbrother [the parish councillor who dies at the start of the novel] represents liberal aspirations towards a fairer and more integrated society, whereby we don't lecture the disadvantaged about pulling themselves up by their bootstraps: instead we have to wade in to help in ways that may be messy, unsatisfying and barely effective, but without which we abandon hope.

Not one in which we abandon technology completely and en masse.

We've just seen a period during the Bush presidency in which we abandoned nearly seven decades of progressive legislation that contributed to the emergence of a large middle class here at home and the rise of the United States as a world leader economically, politically and socially.

Drawing on 1950s America, and the later buildings of Mies van der Rohe, the G-Star HQ fits into what has been called OMA's "generic" phase, what De Graaf describes as "the more down-to-earth, somewhat understated oeuvre that has ensured since the CCTV building in Beijing – after which we abandoned an obsession with form and a desire to demonstrate a certain amount of virtuosity".

"Which we abandoned about a week before our demo day".

"It unites two revolutions in neuroscience and heralds a new era in which we can abandon electrodes and use light alone to probe neural circuits during behaviour".

Or as the New Statesman's first leader, back in 1913, put it: "we shall be bound by no ties of party, class, or creed … we have no axe to grind, no panacea to advertise, no theory which we should abandon with regret".

Perhaps humans have simply entered a new stage of evolution in which we have abandoned chocolates, door holding, flowers or any overt gesture of interest for a new and unnatural order of things.

He teases out an irony: Humans have built physical shelters to protect themselves from nature, thereby shutting out these anterior soundscapes; but these soundscapes are themselves shelters, structures of serenity and happiness, which we are abandoning.

And so began our second adventure of trying feebly for an hour to get a cab home, which we finally abandonned and decided to buy drinks from this pretty lady at the Jamaican bar across the street from the festival.