Sentence examples for becomes a different sort from inspiring English sources

Having bought the general's 8-year-old son a handful of cheap toy soldiers — a simple gesture that, alarmingly, counts as legitimate affection in the lonely boy's life — Van becomes a different sort of serviceman, one ordered to become an official playmate.

Although the book begins as a kind of murder mystery -- a man is shot and killed in a wealthy Boston suburb when he approaches a stranger's car -- it quickly becomes a different sort of investigation, an investigation into the ways in which this man's death affects his wife and his best friend and triggers their memories of earlier losses and regrets.

He comes at his subject stealthily, looking not at humans themselves but at what they build and buy, to understand them, to explore the way "a life, lived silently enough, in sufficient solitude, becomes a different sort of sphere, no less perfect".

"Once it's changed, once the waterfront becomes a different sort of waterfront than it is today, with condos and different kinds of families and all of the things that are inevitable in a city like this".

The story itself was a love affair that became a murder, that became a different sort of affair.

Indonesia has become a different sort of model of the transition from military to civilian rule, of openness and pluralism.

But of course Nick has become a different sort of addict now, craving the danger of desperate situations.

How wonderful, at the end of a day's writing, to walk down the street and become a different sort of artist!

At thirty-six, Mayweather should be past his prime; if he keeps fighting, he will eventually become hittable, at which point he may become a different sort of fighter, possibly a more violent one.

It is not that his daughter has an uneventful time in the New World -- far from it -- but by then "Martha Peake" has become a different sort of story: more open, more episodic, breezier.

Amid the cracked entrance ramps and the faded ticket booth signs, the stadium once called "the eighth wonder of the world" has become a different sort of wonder: the biggest vacant building in the fourth-largest city in the country, a nine-acre hollow that officials of Harris County spend up to $3 million annually to maintain and secure, though the last major event there was in early 2008.