Similar context phrases
Translation examples
There was something passionate and alien in her that could never be wholly eradicated.
Había en ella algo apasionado y ajeno que jamás podría ser totalmente anulado.
The new religion seemed to be wholly orgiastic, with a murderous hatred for logic and science and rationality of all kinds — you could expect trouble.
La nueva religión parecía ser totalmente orgiástica, con un odio mortífero a la lógica, la ciencia y la racionalidad de todo género;
This fact and the vertical pupils of his eye suggested that he might be wholly arboreal or at least accustomed to finding his food or his prey in trees.
Este hecho y la pupila vertical de su único ojo, acaso sugirieran que se trataba de un ser totalmente arbóreo, o al menos acostumbrado a buscar su comida o su presa entre los árboles.
Because what I see or imagine is a mystery, and the place of the mystery is the very spot where the good brothers, whether they want to or not, shit and piss. They are body, and their bodies remind them they can never be wholly spirit, as they’d like.
Porque eso que yo veo o imagino es un misterio y el sitio del misterio es el lugar donde los buenos hermanos, lo quieran o no, cagan y mean, son cuerpo y su cuerpo les recuerda que nunca podrán ser totalmente, como lo quisieran, espíritu.
If obliged to row upstream under the worst of conditions (when the river was in flood and they were working too hard to sing in unison) then the sound of their breath came close to the anguish of weeping, and they had the maniacal expression of horses in a frightened gallop, such an intensity of expression, such torture in the effort, that they could not be wholly ugly.
Cuando se veían obligados a remar contra la corriente bajo las peores condiciones (cuando había inundación y trabajaban demasiado duro como para poder cantar al unísono), el sonido de su aliento se aproximaba a la angustia del llanto, y tenían la expresión demente de caballos desbocados, una expresión tan intensa y torturada por el esfuerzo, que no les permitía ser totalmente feos.
How many English words do you know?
Test your English vocabulary size, and measure how many words you know.
Online Test