Sentence examples for about his parentage from inspiring English sources

There are various theories about his parentage we won't go into here.

Perhaps one could detect clever meta-fictional commentary here, but really it seems that this narrator from Oscar and Lucinda's future is there just to spring one big surprise about his parentage towards the end of the book.

Though he had been adopted by the Spanish writer Miguel Utrillo, there were persistent rumors that Renoir was his father, based on the fact that Valadon had been one of his favorite models, and there seems no doubt that the uncertainty about his parentage was a major factor in his excesses.

Legends about his parentage and youth are of little historical significance, but from an autobiographical reference it seems certain that he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that reputedly had an effect on his conversion to the religious life.

The Musketeers After Porthos (Howard Charles) uncovers the apparent truth about his parentage.

The finale saw Jon Snow learn he really knows nothing about his parentage and gave us a new favorite couple to feel conflicted about.

There's a reason for his generosity: despite his swagger, Passin' Through has doubts about his own parentage, which gives him an affinity with fatherless children.

Father Dinis learns the surprising truth about his own parentage; there's a dramatic episode from the Napoleonic wars; a mysterious French femme fatale (Clotilde Hesme) turns up with a score to settle; and more, far more, besides.

He was a great teacher and a champion talker, somehow managing to be both elaborately formal — he couched any direction, even a last-minute, life-saving one, as a polite request — and cheerily intimate: I learned about his Ecuadorean parentage and his immigrant upbringing, his failed marriage, his two beloved children, and his future prospects, both erotic and professional.

It was clear that this boy had suspicions about his biological parentage.

Bundy expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for lying about his true parentage and leaving him to discover it for himself.