Sentence examples for colorful source from inspiring English sources

According to Hans Halberstadt's colorful source book, Woodies, (MetroBooks, $14.98), there were 150,000 woodies manufactured between 1928 and 1953.

Many terms come from the names of celebrities, brands and a cornucopia of other colorful sources.

In my description of the Madrid secret police chief's conversation during a lunchtime bombardment in the journalists' canteen, for example, which was described by Virginia Cowles and Josephine Herbst and used by Ernest Hemingway in his play "The Fifth Column," I had multiple colorful sources to choose from.

Handworked jewelry, hats, bags and colorful knits are sourced from countries as far away as Cameroon and Senegal.

Though the past is a source of colorful memories for old timers in the neighborhood, the future could be grim.

Soon, galleon loads of the Kin Pech trees began showing up in Spain, and news that a cheap source of colorful dye had been found blasted across the continent like a cannonball.

In many cases, that means eating the colorful skins, the richest sources of protective phytonutrients, along with the paler flesh.

A colorful capsule biography of Köhler (source: Barry) eventually appeared online — a Polish-French-German Jew, a survivor of Treblinka with the bad luck to wind up for twenty-five years in the Soviet Gulag — but there was no mention of him or the orchestra in any reference book.

As a nonpartisan (not postpartisan) lexicographer, I have tried three times to reach someone in Senator Clinton's presidential campaign staff to point to, pursue and retrieve the source of this colorful expression, which may be a New York doctrine with an Arkansas corollary.

The Dictionary of American Regional English -- repository of the most delicious dialect sources and most colorful evidence of the Americanization of the English language -- has now covered letters P to Sk.

Yet the portraits in Patterson's works also hint at a kind of violence; the children's forms have clearly been cut and pasted from their original sources, and the colorful clutter around them is reminiscent of a roadside memorial.