Sentence examples for attested to the author from inspiring English sources
The second installment, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," attested to the author's improved plotting abilities, moving backward into the past even as it accelerated toward a vicious and violent conclusion.
Lyrical, elegiac and ruminative, that novel not only attested to the author's skill at conjuring up a specific time and place, but also showed her ambition (and ability) to turn what might have been an ordinary family saga into a narrative that glittered with larger ideas about identity and history and the art of storytelling.
Whereas "The Bird Artist" blended these elements into a wonderfully odd, fablelike tale that attested to the author's distinctive voice, "Devotion" feels curiously tired and synthetic, a mannered mix of Mr. Norman's own idiosyncratic narrative tics and more traditional storytelling tropes.
While the precise form of the dissertation will vary by field, the dissertation's fundamental function as an element of doctoral training is to attest to the author's capacity to produce novel scholarship independently according to the standards of a particular academic discipline.
Attesting to the author's meticulous attention to detail, the gender status of experimental animals is verified by differences in the salivary gland, Bowman's capsule in the kidney and liver nuclei.
Badenweiler and the house where he died became something of a tourist attraction for its fleeting association with the American author; Alexander Woollcott attested to the fact that, long after Crane's death, tourists would be directed to the room where he died.
Claude Cernuschi, for example, the author of a book on Pollock, attested to the authenticity of a small painting signed "J.
A concerned nuclear physicist attested to the machine's efficacy.
What, after all, is achieved by those lists of authorities, so generous with their time and wisdom, except to attest to the diligence of the author?
At its best, it attests to the maturation of the author's voice and her willingness to push her gifts in an ambitious new direction, to explore the intimacies of family and small-town life, the peculiar geography of childhood in all its dreamlike intensity and ennui, and the perils of storytelling and trying to mythologize the past.
Rather, the novel stands as a meticulously crafted piece of gently comic satire -- a small, finely tuned fable that attests to the author's pitch-perfect ear for character and mood, and her natural storytelling gifts.
