Sentence examples for for a small circle of from inspiring English sources

On days when he wasn't working, he liked to cook for a small circle of friends.

"Until now I have lived and spoken in an honorable solitude, and for a small circle of devoted friends," Laboulaye told his students that year.

He was born in the French-Flemish border town Valenciennes, but spent most of his life in Paris, living in debt at one address or another, and painting for a small circle of friends and collectors.

In a way the institute seems like a throwback to the Society for Private Musical Performances, the group Arnold Schoenberg organized in 1918 to provide competent accounts of modern music for a small circle of Viennese devotees.

Another Weisman idea illustrates that complexity: "Unknown to most people, except for a small circle of scientists who have been connecting the dots for decades, our TVs, cell phones, and even our cars have wreaked unprecedented avian slaughter".

Strategies for closing, or at least narrowing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know in specific contexts, are rarer, specialised, and probably pretty hard for anyone outside a small circle of experts to understand.

At the same time, Mr. Levitt's penchant for making decisions within a small circle of advisors has, some say, weakened the role of the commission itself, once an arena for vigorous policy debates.

I realized for the first time how difficult certain aspects of campaigning had to be for Hillary," Mixner wrote, adding that she "reserved her displays of affection for her family and a small circle of intimates".

Mrs. Kirchner has also come under attack for making decisions with just a small circle of aides and advisers.

After Fuller died, at 87, enthusiasm for his teachings cooled outside a small circle of acolytes, who sought, through seminars and books, to turn the freest of free thinkers into the high priest of a cult.

His work has an endearingly homemade quality, as if Mr. Plympton were dashing off his sketches for the amusement of himself and a small circle of friends.