Sentence examples for book of profiles from inspiring English sources

Yet this conviction has not stopped him from writing a book of profiles of psychologists who were reckoned to be geniuses.

Rex Reed's "People are Crazy Here" (1974) is the sequel to "Do You Sleep in the Nude?," the book of profiles that put Mr. Reed on the map.

His output included a novel ("Heart in a Hurricane"), a fleeting Broadway play and a book of profiles of people he mostly knew (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Sinclair Lewis and his college classmate and friend Cole Porter).

In 1926, de Kruif turned to nonfiction, publishing "Microbe Hunters," a book of profiles of scientists, starting with Leeuwenhoek, who can see tiny things the rest of us can't, things that are trying to kill us.

Vocabulary: envoy, momentum, initiative, diplomatic, triumph, vigor, factions Extension Activities: 1. Create a book of profiles of the key figures mentioned in the article read in class, such as Secretary of State William J. Burns, Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and others.

Mrs. Reid was inspired to write her first biography by her familiarity with E. T. Bell's "Men of Mathematics," a book of short profiles of important mathematicians.

Steven bought a book of molding profiles and then sculptured his own versions out of Play-Doh.

With Humra Quraishi he produced Absolute Khushwant: The Low-down on Life, Death and Most Things In-between (2010) and a book of biographical profiles, The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous (2013).

That point is further driven home by the inclusion in the book of a profile of Bradley Manning which follows directly after Assange's profile.

My first job was to go through a book of high-profile events and awards ceremonies, call the organisers and see if his lordship was invited.

The book, a series of profiles by CONNIE COLLINS, originated with More magazine.