Sentence examples for collecting around him from inspiring English sources

However, Klinsi was, despite the criticism collecting around him, a genius for the night, installing the ancient DaMarcus Beasley at left back, not his position.

It was no accident that the summer parties he threw with his second wife, the journalist Nigella Lawson, were famous for being attended, in turn, by the famous whom he so enjoyed collecting around him and who, in return, so loved him.

Still, it's possible that Jiles intended to wrap her hero in a mythic haze, since, as she writes in the novel's epilogue, "elements of legend have collected around" him.

Weird Mob was a rare hit, collecting around $2m at the box office.

Today, the middle-class is collecting around $2 trillion per year in federal transfer payments.

Last I checked, we were collecting around 1.3percentt of GDP in revenue from the corporate sector.

It was clear that he collected around him some very good people to form his administration but in the circumstances what more could he do.

Unless memory is playing tricks on me, Mr. Wiseman was in the auditorium, and a knot of us interns collected around him, assuring him Yes, Yes against the education staff's No. JAMES F. SCHAEFER JR.

Some of the cyclic stories collected around him, such as the wolf or bear fishing with his tail through a hole in the ice, are found all over the world; others, like the sick lion cured by the wolf's skin, derive by oral transmission from Greco-Roman sources.

Court records indicate he collected around him a crew of enforcers with nicknames like "Tank" and "Animal". Hanson named his crew after himself: "O-Dog Enterprise". With his ill-gotten proceeds, Hanson built himself an opulent house in Redondo Beach, Calif., with a pool and the walls covered with a silver-plated AK-47 pressed with the Louis Vuitton logo, Rolling Stone reported.

Human divinity was a way to talk about people who have strong charismatic power, and the community that collected around Jesus certainly thought of him as extraordinary.