Sentence examples for world drifted from inspiring English sources

We walked around the cobblestone streets, slick and slippery after a summer rain, as the steady beat of drums from local bands playing axé, African-Bahia's musical gift to the world, drifted from behind ancient but brightly painted walls.

In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American model of capitalism, largely unchallenged by ideological alternatives and increasingly dominant around the world, drifted toward what conservatives viewed as a more pure form of economic liberty and what liberals came to view as misguided free-market fundamentalism.

Paleoclimatologists trying to understand how the world drifted into the last ice age 70,000 years ago are getting new clues from isotopes preserved in deep-sea sediments.

My confession, right here is that just now the words and melody of "We are the World" drifted into my mind; I think because of a yearning for a sense of community and for more acceptance of our ideas, our feelings and the imperfections in us all.

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what?

As she explained it, a great gap had opened up between herself and the world, "drifting away through a violet-coloured sea where hammer-nosed sharks in tropical ease swam side by side with the seals and the polar bears".

And that sense of the erratic and tangential quality of everyday life — even if it's displaced into a bizarre, parallel world — drifts off the page, into the world you see, after reading "Dear Cyborgs".

Sears' problems of recent years developed in good part because these two worlds drifted dangerously apart.

Instead of a self-contained utopia, he offers us multiple worlds, drifting in and out of focus like a dream.

"If this little object is a planet that has been ejected from its native system, it conjures up the striking image of orphaned worlds, drifting in the emptiness of space," Dr Delorme said.

Open the windows and the world drifts in.