Sentence examples for extraordinary birth from inspiring English sources

One legend among many recounts Da Yu's extraordinary birth: a man called Gun was given charge of controlling a great deluge.

Charlotte Higgins's book This New Noise: the Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC (Guardian Faber) is published on 18 June.

One of the most extraordinary birth scenes in English literature is also one of the earliest attempts: Laurence Sterne's still-radical Tristram Shandy, a prolonged series of digressions that keep returning to, and then flinching away from, a forceps delivery.

Charlotte Higgins's This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC is an account of an organisation that embraces so many aspects of this country's life, traditions and personality that it seems to represent the British character itself.

In This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC (Guardian Faber), Charlotte Higgins is friendly, occasionally surprised and exhaustive as she analyses the history of UK broadcasting and the many crises over technology, content, money, personal agenda and politics.

From the kneading – sorry, wedging – and slapping of the cold clay, to centring it on the wheel and the comedy slippy-sloppy wobbling that goes with that, to the finger-shaping and the extraordinary birth of something symmetrical and beautiful out of the mud.

Some of the most neurotic people have these extraordinary births, and then other people who are calm and stoical in every way are panicked by the pain.

The more one reflects on that wonderful document the more extraordinary appears its birth.

Twenty-five years later, recognizing the extraordinary rates of birth defects, miscarriages, cancer and nervous disorders in the area---along with the construction of a school near the contaminated site--Love Canal resident Lois Gibbs led a campaign to uncover the environmental disaster.

"The show really examines the influence of this extraordinary family on the birth of modern art," said Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture at SFMoMA.

Peter York's books include the bestselling The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, written with Ann Barr, and Dictators Homes Neil Libbertt's extraordinary photostory captured the birth of a nation, as elections to determine the first leader of Zimbabwe took place, tracking the principals - Zanu-PF's Robert Mugabe, Zapu's Joshua Nkomo and UANC's Bishop Abel Muzorewa - throughout their campaigns.