Sentence examples for wild metre from inspiring English sources

Tocqueville tracked this oscillation of opposites in America, the wild metre of all-this or all-that: he explains why Americans love empirical fact and unreal rhetoric, why they have so many ambitious men and so few great ambitions.

It's quite wild!" The 115 metre (377ft) sculpture was always meant to walk on art and engineering's wild side.

The South West England's largest peninsula has six conspicuous uplands: Exmoor, where Dunkery Beacon reaches an elevation of 1,704 feet (519 metres); the wild, granite uplands of Dartmoor, which reach 2,038 feet (621 metres) at High Willhays; Bodmin Moor; Hensbarrow; Carn Brea; and the Penwith upland that forms the spectacular extremity of Land's End.

Searching for the grammar of America, he got instead its metre: the wild oscillations between hope and despair, material glut and spiritual renunciation, stomach patting and war fever.

People should remain at least 50 metres from wild elephants, he said.

Hall's sprinting ability allowed him to open a lead by the final turn, but Thorpe's finishing kick overhauled him in the final metres, sparking wild celebrations amongst the partisan crowd.

82 mins: Caceres hits a wild shot from about 40 metres out and skys it.

Inexperienced would-be farmers did not realise that wild boar can jump two-metre fences or use their 20-stone weight to bulldoze their way to freedom.

So what is it like seeing a wild gorilla only a few metres away?

The Jervis commonwealth marine reserve sprawls across 2,473 square kilometres of wild ocean, from depths of 120 metres to five kilometres.

Commercially, natural rubber is obtained almost exclusively from Hevea brasiliensis, a tree indigenous to South America, where it grows wild to a height of 34 metres (120 feet).