Sentence examples for as if telling from inspiring English sources

He sang them both with a forthright intimacy, as if telling a cherished bedtime story.

Mr. Tetzlaff laid out the rigorous short phrases as if telling a story, one strand leading to another.

It was as if telling my news to someone I'd known my whole life had lifted a great weight from me.

The images had come to the women in their dreams, which they recounted seated in a circle, using hushed tones as if telling tales around a campfire.

As the goddess embraces her beloved, one cherub holds a finger to his lips, as if telling the other: "Do not disturb".

But my impulse is to defend her — as if telling the truth would be revealing a dark family secret, my mother's shortcomings, and worse.

You can say it, but then tell us (relatives), as, if you tell him, he'll give up (wife of Turkish male patient).

Alan Johnson, the opposition's finance spokesman, said many people felt let down by the government as if told to "get a shovel or stay at home".

A number of true cult texts, however, follow the rite step by step as if told by a close observer, and many laments were probably performed in the actual rites.

$23. THERE'S a special style that goes with the fairy story -- a style with great and self-contained energy, as if told by a cold child, in which horror is recorded alongside wonders.

The originality was to be shown... in what we may call the psychological description the murderer gives us of his temptations, temperament and character as if told by another".