Sentence examples for fighting described from inspiring English sources

It was hard to imagine that not so long ago this tranquil spot was the scene of fierce fighting described by Hemingway in "A Farewell to Arms".

O'Prey, who is interested in marginalised voices from the war – those who were there but not fighting - described her as "the great forgotten voice of the war – the outstanding female voice of the first world war".

The third boarding attempt succeeded, and Payne himself went down with a mortal wound in fighting described as "very violent".

Most of those in Falluja during the fighting described the mojahedin in heroic terms.

That general picture is surely right, though it can be protested that Homer's singling out of individuals may be just literary spotlighting and that the masses played a respectably large part in the fighting described in the epics.

The actual fighting, described with a realism reminiscent of Homer's "Iliad", casts him into a "berserk rage" in which he is surprised to find himself "ecstatically happy", even as the men around him, and sometimes he himself, get shot to pieces.Because Jünger fought for almost the entire war on the western front, his account vividly charts the evolution of trench warfare.

Unicef's Yemen representative told the Guardian that the organisation had confirmed that at least 62 children had been killed and 30 maimed in four days of fighting, describing the situation as "appalling".

Thomas was shown footage from the incident with Pallett - which Big Brother bosses had described as "almost play-fighting" - describing her reaction as "totally unexpected".

Wearing a sombre suit and tie, the former president looked tanned and clean-shaven – recent photos showed him with fashionable stubble – and came out fighting, describing the accusations as "grotesque", and accusing the judges of being politically biased and determined to humiliate and destroy him.

One of his subcommanders, Omar Abdulkader of the Grandsons of Saladin, a Kurdish fighting group, described how Mr. Saleh welcomed him and fellow fighters into Al Tawhid — though they were not Arabs.

"First of all," he tells me, "pirouettes look a lot cooler than barrel-rolling and they are consistent with the witcher fighting style described by Andrzej Sapkowski in his novels.