Sentence examples for whose descent from inspiring English sources

People whose descent into addiction came later in life have more memories of what life can be like sober.

Llewyn's closest cousin is the hero of A Serious Man, whose descent into the abyss ended only in abrupt apocalypse.

Mr. Bloom likewise plays Sam's bluff, tactless father in a key that's notably different from his elderly Sam, whose descent into dementia is among the more moving sequences.

Imagine a country whose descent into chaos and armed conflict is largely unknown in the outside world, because it is unreported.

She may be the platonic ideal of the fallen teen idol, one whose descent is not just more fascinating than her ascent, but is also more creative.

We empathize with him as a lover in his 80's writing poems to Davies, whose descent into alcoholism all but broke his heart.

And Ophelia, whose rapid descent into insanity so often seems forced, is quite convincing this time around, if only because she just won't stop singing.

Australian players in the 1960s and '70s dominated the international tennis scene, many winning Grand Slam titles; among them are Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Margaret Court, and Evonne Goolagong Cawley, whose Aboriginal descent made her accomplishments still more noteworthy.

He was a hard-­beset man, whose final descent into acute alcoholism makes for harrowing reading, both here and in a splendid earlier biography by Frederick Nolan, Lorenz Hartt: A Poet on Broadway".

Nobody is looking out for characters like Markus whose unwitting descent into criminality might have been avoided had somebody spotted his particular talent and steered it in a positive direction.

Vespasian did eventually decide to accept Galba, whose noble descent, given the standards of the day, would have been daunting to a man of Vespasian's position in society.