Example Sentences
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He offered the three principles necessary for a songwriter in his first volume of collected lyrics - Content Dictates Form, Less Is More, and God Is in the Details.
From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2021
He views his interior life as a psychomachia, a struggle between “the Dictates of my Fancy” and reason, common sense and various premonitions or “secret Hints” from guardian spirits who inhabit an “invisible World.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019
Dictates from afar about how this endeavor should be organized may prove destructive to those communities.
From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2017
Whosoever pretends to obtain it, must hearken more to the Dictates of the Heart, than to those of Art.
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest
Call back the frighted Blood into thy Cheeks, And I'll obey the Dictates of my Love, And smile, and kiss, and dwell for ever here— Enter Osmin hastily.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
