Sentence examples for a captivity from inspiring English sources

John Williams wrote a captivity narrative, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, about his experience, which was published in 1707.

In publicity materials, this fictional story (despite misleading end notes suggesting otherwise) is coyly described as "a captivity fantasy".

Composing a captivity narrative after their return is a therapeutic ritual of closure, a way of mourning their lost childhoods and claiming a voice for the future.

But "A Lover's Almanac" is also a captivity narrative, where everyone is kidnapped, if not by Indians, then maybe Freud, or Marx, or bad luck, or probability theory.

Then she was taken into a captivity lasting nearly two years: a conscript child soldier and a sexual slave in the former president's army.

After a captivity of more than three years, he returned to his native town, where he married, produced five children, and, in the words of a local historian, "held many offices of trust and responsibility, both civil and ecclesiastical".

Mr Castro stands before you a captive, in captivity, a prisoner".

What he was experiencing was a vicarious captivity, a feeling he needed to join his father.

He received a parole and was exchanged in March 1865, bringing his year-and-a-half of captivity to an end.

His livelihood as an endorser amounts to a gilded captivity, because his currency is his character.

She then played a crucial role in freeing him from a second captivity in Lahore.