Sentence examples for world impinge from inspiring English sources

He is a man with, as one colleague tells him,  "an unerring ability not to let the world impinge on him".

The French revolution was about the real world impinging on another world that had become too isolated.

She left me wondering defiantly what windows were for.But that dream world impinges in odd ways.

There she reads the diary slowly, at the same speed she imagines Nao wrote it, and gradually the teenager's world impinges more and more on Ruth's.

The narrative also fragments, with the original studios splintering and changing hands and the outside world impinging, from the Depression to war to the blacklist to the counterculture.

They relate to the tendency of superposed quantum states to collapse to a single value -- either on or off -- when the real world impinges.

But in the end, there will be issues that need resolution, where the real world impinges on the resolution factory on the East River.

Lapham portrays Monk as an odd character who is very much absorbed with his own mind and music and seems faintly surprised when the outside world impinges on his life.

Readers in a hundred years — and Heaney will have readers in a hundred years — will note how little the hurtling technological changes of the modern world impinged upon his work.

Until the larger world impinges on the island's isolation, in the form of marauding cannibals, there's just the two of us, Robinson and his reader, and it's very cozy.

The only time the "modern" world impinges is when the guitar figure rumbles throughout the title track, which is redolent of the Smiths' How Soon Is Now – turns out McPherson's three all-time heroes are Little Richard, Joe Strummer and Morrissey-Marr.