Sentence examples for anecdote around from inspiring English sources

I try not to lead by anecdote around here.

There's a largely unsubstantiated anecdote around Aberdeen that dictates Gove was given a pounding by most of the school for trying to break up a snowball fight under the apparent instruction of the Head Boy, which I hope is true.

"You clean it up and you might move some anecdotes around and paragraphs around.

Three of the anecdotes around which David Cameron built his case in the debate became the subject of questioning and raised eyebrows, as reporters, bloggers and Twitter users launched their own factchecking operations.

Instead of an attempt to integrate the band's particular sound into a larger musical history, she offers personal anecdotes around particular songs or albums that "I have the most to say about or remember the best".

Networking expert Dick van Vlooten shares with us insights and anecdotes around the seven fundamental laws of networking.

To give an aimless harangue the illusion of shapeliness, some of us begin (forget "lede") with a historical allusion or revealing anecdote, then wander around for 600 words before concluding by harking back to an event or quotation in the opening graph.

But the anecdote ricocheted around the catty movie business, giving visual reinforcement to a judgment that most power players had already made: she's not one of us.

A sliver of comedy about a corporate psychological test that leaves an angry employee protesting that he is not gay, the play consists mostly of trivia questions about sports, celebrities and films and possesses the weight of an anecdote told around an office water cooler.

A central anecdote revolved around a party he threw at his Brooklyn home in which "Trump: The Board Game" was ironically played while Trump steaks and Trump wine (or reasonable facsimiles of these products) were served.

Efforts to imagine him swapping anecdotes, joshing around or being broadly affable are doomed to failure.