Sentence examples for anecdote colour from inspiring English sources
It is told with a sharp eye for anecdote, colour and personality, rescuing from obscurity figures such as "the first great Liverpool manager", Tom Watson – nominated by Williams as assistant to Shankly in coaching the All-time XI – and interwar defender Jim Parson Jacksonon, who was eventually ordained as a Presbyterian minister.
Their characters are often full of colour, anecdote and surprise, some good, some bad (if you haven't tried them, I recommend great ones in Glasgow, for example).
Publisher Rupert Lancaster said the book would be "raw history at its very best … We're delighted to be publishing such an important book, packed with detail, colour and anecdotes about being at the centre of what many have called the most serious political event to happen in the UK since the second world war".
Mr Fuller's book is devoid of colour and biographical anecdote.It is perhaps admirable that Mr Fuller has clearly set out not to entertain but to exhort.
He was typically self-effacing in his explanation of the programme's success in reaching up to 15 million viewers during the 19 years that he presented it, from 1981: it was the people who brought items for identification and evaluation that gave the show "colour, charm, interest, anecdote and humour.
This is a wind-up?" 18th over: West Indies 69-3 (Chanderpaul 27 Bravo 0) need 329 "A long time ago I used to play cricket with a bloke who had a false leg (bottom half)," says Jools Banford, for no reason other than to provide a little background colour for this anecdote: "He was always one for the gadgets and he turned up one day with a bat with holes in.
It's worth a read in full for the colour and insider anecdotes, not least the detail that a lawyer at the hacking trial was in the habit of making notes in which she was referred to as HM – for Her Majesty.
One of Weber's strengths was his eye for an illuminating anecdote; he was a historical impressionist, more interested in colour than line.
Remember that a picture before being a war-horse, a nude or an anecdote of some sort is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
