Sentence examples for called in the shape from inspiring English sources

If business had not called, in the shape of Henry Ford, and if public service had not called later, with John Kennedy asking him to take first Treasury and then Defence, he might have stayed at Harvard teaching economics.

So everything purrs along nicely until someone is murdered, and an inspector calls, in the amusing shape of the bumbling Stephen Fry.

The book carefully and sensitively addresses what the author calls "(in) security," as it shapes favela residents' daily lives.

They leave a calling card in the shape of tufts of their winter coat on stumps and bushes.

It is the shock of his death that brings his parents, Alfred and Rita Allmers, back to the paths of their true lives and leaves the audience with a surprisingly uplifting vision of their future, once the corruption of their personal integrity has been blasted away by sorrow, disillusionment, recrimination and near despair as they seek what Rita calls "something in the shape of love".

Mr. Schulberg was particularly taken with a sermon Father Corridan gave called "Christ in the Shape-Up," and he copied it almost verbatim in the riveting speech given by the film's Father Barry, played by Mr. Malden.

When he discovered that the pond didn't hold water, he called in Mr. Cosgrove to shape the space, and add a liner and a filtration system.

Sendak elaborated on the degree to which he conceives his work musically in an article called "The Shape of Music," which appeared in the Sunday Herald Tribune late in 1964.

Contemporary plot: Latest issue of Broadcast reveals former Birt lieutenant Tony Hall has called in McKinseys to help shape restructuring.

He called the shape and timing involved in the firing systems and detonators "key components of nuclear weapons".

What Blackburn did not possess was the kind of quality in front of goal that Tottenham were able to call upon, especially in the shape of Rafael van der Vaart.