We walk around every day in complex, unnatural environments that we built by wresting raw material from the ground.
Approaching the canvases, you receive something actively intimate — the obsessive passion of the artist to wrest rightness from his material... View Article Peter Schjeldahl has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998 and is the magazine's art critic.
Yet, "the primary cause of government" is to be found in nature itself, since humans must wrest from nature "the scanty materials of happiness" (Mill 1992, 4 5).
When Hagen attempts to wrest it from them, he drowns.
They wrest cash from the state to fund the yeshivas.
Her book tracks her attempts to wrest free from it.
That's why they want to wrest Randy Johnson from Arizona.
East crown for four seasons, ever since Rollins predicted they would wrest it from the Mets.
How do we wrest meaning from the unexpected death of someone close to us?
The quarrel had originated over the King's wish to wrest taxes from the French clergy.
