Sentence examples for author stood from inspiring English sources

As the secretary in the City Building rudely confirmed this, the author stood by, helplessly silent.

Critic and author stood before a far wider audience than the postwar literary critics ever dreamed of having.

Every morning at ten o'clock, as author stood at the kitchen sink finishing the breakfast dishes, she could hear him pecking up the street on his wooden leg.

Every morning at ten o'clock, as author stood at the kitchen sink finishing the breakfast dishes, she could hear him pecking up the street on….

By Dorothy Day The New Yorker, April 18 , 1936P. 63 Every morning at ten o'clock, as author stood at the kitchen sink finishing the breakfast dishes, she could hear him pecking up the street on his wooden leg.

And yet, when we close the book, we are left with a subliminal sense of unease of the sort such novels don't usually produce -- as though we weren't sure where the author stood, or where we were meant to put ourselves.

It is obvious where the author stands on this issue and that his evaluation is clouded by liberal partisan ideology.

With his jump-cut shifts, startling connections and breathtaking disconnections the author stands among our most gifted younger writers.

I heard a best-selling author stand up in front of an adoring crowd and state, "We are the working poor".

To be sure, its author stands wholly in the tradition of Augustine and the Areopagite; yet he is also the first medieval theologian who proclaims an explicit openness toward the natural world.

Dressed in shades of grey that accentuate the pristine whiteness of her publisher's clinical offices, the 50-year old author stands out like a country girl at a City soirée, desperate to disappear but condemned to draw every gaze.