Sentence examples for a collection of war from inspiring English sources

The Dylan Thomas Prize for poetry has been awarded to Elyse Fenton for "Clamor," a collection of war poems written while her husband was deployed in Baghdad.

FREQUENT business travelers are called road warriors for a reason — most of them have a collection of war stories, ranging from minor annoyances to full-combat nightmares.

Instead, it was a 1941 Volkswagen Kübelwagen Type 82, the first acquisition in a collection of war matériel begun 10 years ago by Mr. Coffman, a refrigeration service technician from Marengo, Ill.

In May 1865 a collection of war poems entitled Drum Taps showed Whitman's readers a new kind of poetry, moving from the oratorical excitement with which he had greeted the falling-in and arming of the young men at the beginning of the Civil War to a disturbing awareness of what war really meant.

The film is, rather, both literally and figuratively, a collection of war stories a set of anecdotes that stay rigorously within the context of battle, that emphasize the courage and the severity, the existential moment of war (and do so with a portentous shadowing of telling details) while showing nothing (actually nothing) of the soldiers outside the realm of battle.

In the second century, Christianity was not an institution but a collection of warring factions, each with its own gospels, each claiming direct descent from Jesus, each accusing the others of heresy, homosexuality, and the like.

As governor, Smith reformed the insane asylums, created the state parks system, and undertook the distinctly unglamorous task of reorganizing the state bureaucracy, which functioned mainly as a collection of warring fiefdoms.

Always in the Middle If in the past the Modern has been regarded as a collection of warring fiefs, Mr. Elderfield, who was hired by the museum in 1975 as a curator, seems determined to make collegiality rule.

Dusoir has suggested that "statistics is a collection of warring factions, with deep disagreements over fundamentals" and differences in reporting statistics from finite probabilities may be one of these fundamental issues [ 6].

In 2004 he received the Wilfred Owen award for poetry for a collection of work criticising the war in Iraq.

Late in the war, Luce dispatched Mr. Lea to the White House to present a collection of Life war paintings to President Roosevelt, who spent 20 minutes chatting about how such works too often ended up in the offices of one admiral or another.