Sentence examples for anecdote of two from inspiring English sources

By James Thurber The New Yorker, October 22, 1932 P. 9 Anecdote of two chinamen in difficulties in the new Eighth Ave.

Heartwarmingly, it even seems that optimism can bring riches: Fox tells an anecdote of two Irish brothers, one of whom (the optimist) is now "a multimillionaire", and the other (less "sunny") "a schoolteacher in Dublin, struggling to pay his mortgage".

"I like to use the anecdote of two kids fighting over an orange.

Including, in webcast form, the anecdote of how four single women delivered two babies in 24 hours.

There's this interesting anecdote of how one of the analysts at the fund wanted the three to meet Mohandas Pai then the CFO at Infosys.

The conversation between Ms. Nichols and Mr. Martins about Balanchine and Robbins included not just anecdotes of the two masters but also present dancers illustrating seven excerpts from five works (three not in current repertory).

Ironically, most of the press centered more on anecdotes of those two films than the actual new release that should have been discussed.

This is partly due to Cathy Fizgerald's unexpected, sharp, and sometimes funny, narration and partly to the engaging personalities and riveting anecdotes of the two Kilmarnock gravediggers, Stevie and Bobby.

She criticized the Internet for having "seduced a whole generation into its inanities" and ended with an anecdote about a pregnant mother of two "somewhere in southern Africa" who must travel to procure scant water for her family and yet craves a copy of "Anna Karenina".

When he was done, Mr. Alter reports, "a Republican sitting some distance down the long table whispered to a pair of Democratic senators, 'Everyone here is ready to vote for Obama, including the Republicans.' " The anecdote is one of scores of compelling insider accounts in "The Promise," an impressively reported, myth-debunking and timely combination of journalism and history.

The historian Bell Wiley, in his classic study "The Life of Johnny Reb," cites one anecdote of ball-playing in the 24th Alabama Regiment, as Joe Johnston's Southern soldiers watched for Gen. William T. Sherman's movements.