Sentences with phrase «bridge over the chasm»

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

He has thrown a bridge over the chasm and removed the cherubim out of the way.

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Over 90 percent, for instance, of those who work for the recently privatized British corporation British Telecom now hold stock in the firm — thus bridging the destructive and needless chasm that separates owners and workers and that promotes class warfare.

The peril of nuclear war is so great that it may bridge the great ideological chasm between the two blocs and make them conscious of having one thing in common: preference for life over death (The Structure of Nations and Empires [Scribner's, 1959]-RRB-.

The lessons of eternal love and friendship as preached by the Smurfs (plus the ordeal of Gleeson getting temporarily transformed into a duck) help them in the end to leap over that sickening corn dog barricade and bridge the class chasm between them.

I'm not saying that a broken family can ever be mended, or even that it should be, but sometimes you have to slap the duct - tape of maturity over the chasm of acrimony and create a bridge of pragmatism for the universal better good.

In Discovery there is a choke point over the chasm that divides the level in half where players must cross a bridge to reach their opponents.

It could have acted as a «bridge» over the current chasm that divides the sceptics and the believers.