Sentence examples for anecdotal style from inspiring English sources

She called that effort "a kind of entertaining, anecdotal style guide".

Ms. Petersen compiles this data in anecdotal style, even though they would have hit harder in more crystallized, succinct form.

TO HIS homilies on economics, Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow and likely candidate for Russia's next presidency, brings a folksy, anecdotal style.

Phil Nichol won over the judging panel, whose decision was announced last night at the Edinburgh Fringe, with his anecdotal style fused with traditional gags.

The home team refuses to give it up…That's the sport being played," writes Mr Powell.The complexity of Juárez's problems means that the anecdotal style of the book sometimes feels thin.

The book's hopscotch, anecdotal style is at once its strength — Ronson is a winning storyteller, equally adept at humor and at horror — and its weakness; one wishes it were grounded in more rigorous study.

Despite his serious approach, Mr Stuart has a relaxed, semi-anecdotal style which repays both careful engagement and lighter dipping.

The film runs to two hours and its anecdotal, hopscotch style starts to wear.

McNulty's stories are unsentimental portrayals of drinkers and bartenders, usually brief and anecdotal in style.

Although Elberse's book is written in the upbeat, anecdotal, gently exhortative style of an airport best-seller, she struggles to turn her observations into useful advice.

The anecdotal and epigrammatic style that had characterized earlier philosophical literature i.e., the Analects, Daodejing, Mencius, Zhuangzi no longer sufficed to convey fully and persuasively the complex philosophical disputes of Xunzi's day.