Sentence examples for world balanced from inspiring English sources

The comic novels set in a world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle are "sacred to dad", she said.

The Discworld series has outgrown its comic fantasy roots - despite the central conceit of a flat world balanced on four elephants on the back of a giant turtle swimming through space - to become astute observations on the human condition.

By 1931, when the Empire State Building was completed, there were between two and three thousand window cleaners in New York; eventually, a crew of eight men worked in two teams on the tallest building in the world, balanced on ledges no more than two inches wide, to clean each of the sixty-five hundred windows.

Monk carries out futile and endless attempts to make the world "balanced".

Fairly synonymous with the gumbo of bayou funk, R&B and jazz that makes up the sound of the Big Easy, Dr. John is already a walking tribute to nightcrawling New Orleans, and maybe that's why the show needed time to heat up at sunset despite a heavy-grooved take on "What a Wonderful World" balanced by a six-piece horn section.

In the minds of the Arab World, balanced foreign policy is the counterweight to violence, armed resistance and conflict, all that Hezbollah has come to represent since it was first founded with the backing of Iran during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon a quarter century ago.

"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" balances the fantastic exaggerations of its action sequences and set-ups with low-key scenes between Cera and his contemporaries that make much of his introspective whimsy and his halting, inquisitive pluck.

Audi's interior designers are the best in the world, balancing comfort and practicality.

And as they become more and more visible on computer screens around the world, balancing their nationalism with the sensibilities of their new audiences will be trickier.

A core feature of this theory is the importance for a child to experience everyday interaction with a reasonably sensitive and sufficiently predictable parent able to provide a "secure base" [ 6] from which the child can comfortably engage with the world, balancing inquisitiveness with a need for security.

If, as Germany's neo-Rankean historians proclaimed, the old European balance of power was giving way to a new world balance, then the future would surely belong to the Anglo-Saxons (British Empire and America) and Slavs (Russian Empire) unless Germany were able to achieve its own place in the sun.