Sentence examples for widening sense from inspiring English sources

Grilled octopus, grilled fish of some kind; warm, slow, moving freckles of light on water; painted boat, stubby raised bows, dropping away to low sterns; heat, breeze; mind increasingly undecided; widening sense of grace and humour that alcohol at its best brings; Saki at lunch after a morning of Hemingway".

Even close associates of the sole conservative challenger, Mohsen Rezai, who has lately muted his criticism in deference to the supreme leader, continued to assert that he had been cheated.But such displays of defiance belie a widening sense of despair among Mr Ahmadinejad's opponents.

Without the shift to literacy, humanity would never have been able to access the fruits of modernity: the rule of law, exponentially growing knowledge, cumulative technological and medical advances, and a widening sense of one's "in-group" and compassionate treatment thereof.

But museum schedules this season suggest that truly unusual suspects of all kinds are pulling ahead of the usual, widening our sense of both the present and the past as they go.

The public was not ready to widen the sense of responsibility for Nazi-era wrongs.

Watching this happen actually widened our sense of what any of us is capable of.

But for the most part these are acts forgotten by time, whose rediscovery greatly widens our sense of the vaudeville era.

It widens our sense of just how careless he is with the lives of others, particularly those of people who are more vulnerable than he is.

Whatever else their merits, these collections, as well as Deborah Willis's panoramic historical survey of images by African-American photographers, "Reflections in Black" (Norton), serve to widen our sense of how the camera has both echoed and shaped American society at a grass-roots level.

But buried beneath her cheery exterior, Ms. Palin also had a potent streak of competition and grit that would emerge as she pursued modest goals — the pageant, basketball, a television job and, finally, at 28, a campaign for the Wasilla City Council — that seemed to widen her sense of possibility.

And it also, as Haskell argues, widened the sense of possibility by demonstrating that people were able to rationally judge risk and reward and deal intelligently with problems that were thousands of miles away or years into the future.