Sentence examples for book bestows from inspiring English sources

Curtis Sittenfeld is right about the aphrodisiacal effects that writing a book bestows on men: for years after Ohio State University Press published my 1967 book, "The Organization of American States and U.S. Foreign Policy," I couldn't beat them off with a stick.

The Amnesty CILIP Honour will be the first ever human rights commendation for children's books, bestowing the award to the books which most distinctively demonstrate or celebrate freedom.

In "Hannibal Rising," Harris, with characteristic perversity, gives his popular fiend the kind of "origin story" that comic-book writers bestow on their impossibly righteous superheroes: how, say, a certain caped crusader against crime acquired his steely resolve and cool paraphernalia.

"I'm assuming you mean the modern version of the word, which includes both men and women?" There are hints in the book that he bestowed sexual favours equally on both.

The title of her book was a nickname bestowed by her more worldly-wise classmates.

Then take an evening stroll and find someone to whom you'd like to bestow your book.

It's not easy, and no one book, person, or theory can bestow it upon us.

7. I empathise with the comic book creator's impulse to bestow less than perfect superpowers on his characters.

"What an honour to be French," he wrote in a recent book, "loyal to a...responsibility to bestow a conscience, a soul upon our Earth.

There are few higher compliments one can imagine bestowing on a book of poetry than to say that one wishes to read it aloud to a loved one on a lakeside at dusk on a Saturday.

In an act of literary reparation, the Booker Prize Foundation, which bestows Britain's most prestigious book prize, has named a shortlist of books published in 1970 that were never eligible for the Man Booker Prize because of a change in the award calendar.