Sentence examples for for a telling from inspiring English sources

He was nature's tourist, and rarely at a loss for a telling image from his travels.

But the clarity of his style on the chessboard makes for a telling contrast with his life away from it.

"Hello Mr. Harper," begins the next email, and I know I'm in for a telling off from Imran.

In that sense, a second case, decided a few days before the criminal trial opened, makes for a telling harbinger of the complexities to come.

Boyd's way with Mozart is on the severe side, which makes for a telling version of the 40th - noble and austere in mood, and refuting the persistently held assumption that the work is primarily elegiac.

Because we don't call for chats, I assume that whenever anyone does try to reach me on the telephone, it's because of a bad, sad, serious emergency and I need to be reached urgently, possibly for a telling off.

It's a telling elegy for an era.

And Suzy had asked God for a vision telling her to decline a new liver.

"An actor pretends for a living, tells lies for a living.

The song has a "totally unexpected ending for a song told as a flashback".

Stephen Dubner was a jobbing magazine writer with a knack for telling a story.