Sentence examples for birthmark of from inspiring English sources

It became the birthmark of entire generations of Midwestern sports fans; its predictive force went from theoretical to that of a cultural law of gravity.

The courageous ability to plunge into that strange innermost being, as into a dark, fathomless pool, was Maurice Sendak's special gift, and it is the indelible sign — like a birthmark — of his Shakespearean inheritance.

On Tuesday night celebrations were expected in Chicago, and elsewhere, as America prepared to welcome the first black president-elect of a country born with the ugly birthmark of slavery.

The colossal cast-iron rings embedded in the eastern slurry wall at ground zero were — if such a thing can be imagined — the birthmark of the World Trade Center.

To be honest nor would I. Loras might be an enthusiastic lover with a birthmark of Dorne on an intriguing part of his body but on the evidence of the past four seasons he's not the fastest thinker on this show.

A birthmark of a zduhać in Herzegovina could be a tuft of hair growing on his shoulder or upper arm.

It is the equivalent of an armpit birthmark — out of view but always there.

(She got a tattoo that matched her skin tone to cover up a port-wine colored birthmark on half of her face, performing the procedure herself because "I didn't trust anyone else," she said).

Marx wrote: "What we have to deal with… is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect… still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges".

In the IVF statistics, a short description of each major congenital anomaly – excluding e.g. minor birthmarks of the skin, postural talipes, or clicky hips – leading to a selective induced abortion or to a birth is requested from all IVF clinics.

HEARTLESS Sensing himself an outcast because of a birthmark on his face, a photographer (Jim Sturgess) strikes a bargain with a mysterious band of thugs who claim they can help him.