Sentence examples for work that seizes from inspiring English sources
It is the compelling atmosphere of this work that seizes us by the scruff though.
The appeals court ordered the government not to review any material related to Mr. Jefferson's Congressional work that was seized during the 18-hour search before returning it.
Smith had no idea that she was setting down the first lines of a work that would seize the mood — and social-media accounts — of so many people in the tumultuous year that was 2016.
In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts for work that, as his citation said, "seized the attention of our nation while displaying the dignity and determination of his subjects".
And anyway, the important story isn't about the sins of the economists; it's about our warped economic discourse, in which important people seize on academic work that fits their preconceptions.
If the start of the conference does resemble a class of 10-year-olds the day after the new Harry Potter comes out, it will be because the inner working of the party remains obscure to many Lib Dem members and they will seize upon any work that promises to cast light upon it.
In 2010 São Paulo's museum of modern art hosted an exhibition of works that had been seized from a variety of crooks and drug traffickers.
Mr. Gurlitt had inherited the art from his father, a dealer for the Nazis who purchased works that had been seized from Jewish households or sold under duress by Jews desperate to flee.
Four years ago the Office of Documentation at the Pompidou Center discovered an inventory of works that had been seized by the Nazis, and last month the painting was returned to the Rosenberg family, who are the sellers next month.
Juan describes himself as a "world class minimal DJ," so he presumably understands that creative work has value and that seizing it and republishing it in another format for your own enrichment is wrong.
The Horatio Alger of graphic novelists, Telgemeier draws up-by-their-book-bags characters who value hard work and seize a chance that has nothing to do with looks or even with love.
