Example sentences of "that [art] world is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so if we could start from these unquestionable little bits of reality , and build everything out of this by pure logical construction , we would have shown that the world is coherent and logical , and we would have shown that ordinary beliefs erm were not open to doubt , were rational and certain . |
| 2 | It is an intellectual leap of the same order as believing that the world is round . |
| 3 | I think these concepts will come to seem as natural to the next generation as the idea that the world is round . |
| 4 | Modern physics , it has been argued ( by e.g. Capra 1979 ) , supports the view , held by certain eastern religions , that the world is fluid and harmonious . |
| 5 | In Greek tragedy , in most of Jane Austen 's novels , a leading figure in the drama realises with a sense of shock that the world is other than once imagined , and accepts that it is so . |
| 6 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 7 | I 'm not saying that the world is perfect . |
| 8 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 9 | The impression that the being would take home is that Earthlings are making reasonable progress in rudimentary aspects of space science and technology ; that the world is keen to spread the benefits of such studies from the industrialised to the developing world ; and that all work in space science and technology follows the lead set by farsighted government bureaucrats and politicians . |
| 10 | Two people can hear the same news report , yet one ‘ hears ’ that the world is full of conflict and hatred , and another hears of the many global efforts towards love , peace and harmony . |
| 11 | and nature of Man — of convincing one 's nerves that the world is full of Misery and Heartbreak , Pain , Sickness and oppression — whereby this Chamber of Maiden-Thought becomes gradually darkened and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open — but all dark — all leading to dark passages . |
| 12 | ‘ The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible , horrible , horrible . |
| 13 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 14 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 15 | We are always being told that the world is shrinking and that the new technology is bringing the inhabitants of planet earth ever closer together , whether they like it or not . |
| 16 | I said to myself that the world is revolting and man is pitiful . |