Sentence examples for a young disciple from inspiring English sources

Mr. Saitoti had thumbed his nose at Mr. Moi's anointment of a young disciple, Uhuru Kenyatta, to replace him.

After a stroke in 2007, the metal crutch that attaches to his left forearm is not quite enough to help him walk, so a young disciple holds up his other side.

She writes of a humiliating post-Elizabeth affair with a young disciple who turns exploiter, and finally of a peaceful marriage to another young woman -- care-giving on her part rather than romantic.

He plays Ting, a young disciple who is sent to Bangkok to locate a head -- Ong-Bak -- stolen from his village's Buddha, a crime that will loose calamitous luck if not redressed.

It all went on noisily and publicly on that stage peopled by the acolytes, hopeful future lovers, invited visitors, the uninvited; and yet a young disciple reported that this man who was in the newspapers as some kind of monster for his writing was the most charming host, a wonderful talker - he enthralled his listeners - and a fine cook.

For dramatic effect, the situation is keenly observed through the eyes of a young disciple, Valentin Bulgakov James McAvoyy), who is simultaneously inspired and perhaps disillusioned or at least confused by some of his mentor's actions.

I suppose now that this scene was like a passive devotion performed by the young disciple of an inanimate god that he would worship forever.

BEYOND THE GATES In the spring of 1994, in Kigali, Rwanda, three Westerners — a wily Catholic priest and schoolmaster (John Hurt), his sincere young disciple (Hugh Dancy), and a Belgian military man (Dominique Horwitz) who heads a U.N. unit — hunker down in a besieged school with about twenty-five hunderd theirs under their protection.

I only glimpsed the bird in busy flight: bit like a goldfinch, like the captive one perched on a rail, by Rembrandt's young disciple, except for the coloring, blue, yellow, and green.

And of course at the same time you can see him cunningly calculating the effect of his words on his former young disciple Andrea (a winningly Welsh-accented and stroppy Matthew Aubrey) who will be tasked with smuggling the Discorsi out of Italy.

When it arrived, I was replying to some inquiries Brando had made about an acquaintance of mine, a young American disciple of Buddhism who for five years had been leading a contemplative, if not entirely unworldly, life in a settlement inside the gates of Kyoto's Nishi-Honganji Temple. Nishi-Honganji Temple