Sentence examples for captured generations from inspiring English sources

Once a single mother dependent on Welfare, she hit it big when her spirited stories about the boy wizard captured generations of readers around the globe.

Filmmaker John Hughes captured Generation X's coming of age in perfectly penned archetypal characters that brought to life the '80s in a delightful and comedic tone.

Of young people's current political apathy, both in New Zealand and the world, Dotcom believes political parties need to change their approach to capture Generation Y voters, hence the Party Party event.

A cleverly crafted (by Chris Lang) whodunnit, but also a very moving, human story that captured two generations.

Four years later, one of his great-grandmothers would be born in Cleveland, and the 1930 census captured three generations living together at 3158 East 82nd Street.

The Oculus Rift-like "holo-viewers," smartwatch-like wrist communicators, and spectrum of specialized vending machines that helped Back to the Future II capture generations of devoted fans required a whole lot of detail work on the part of its artists, Eyth included.

Within a year of graduating came This Life, the twentysomething house-share serial which captured a generation.

In 1972, Jeff Cooper, a firearms instructor and former marine, published "Principles of Personal Defense," which became a classic among gun-rights activists and captured a generation's anxieties.

Without his organizing skill as well as his inspired cheerleading, the Peace Corps would never have captured a generation's imagination as it did.

Telling the story of philanthropist John Hammond's dream to create a theme park filled with real dinosaurs - which disastrously managed to escape - it captured a generation's imagination.

The Shakespeare update starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes captured a generation transfixed by MTV.