Sentence examples for forms of telling from inspiring English sources

The most heavenly looking element is the face, a rotating black sphere that charts the paths of the stars, one of the oldest forms of telling time.

Sept. 11, 2001, subject to multiple forms of "telling" almost since the day itself, is an important place to initiate this work since the events of that day have become so essential to Americans and their relationships to their own government and the world.

Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story -- it was the structure of a sermon.

In a large part, the symbolization and feedback essential to the development of such social networks depends on keeping track of relatedness and kinship through forms of telling, such as performing and representation, storytelling, singing, dancing, painting, building, and weaving [67], [68].

But the problem with the New Authenticity, as presently practiced, is that it is just another form of telling people what they want to hear.

As one of the great exponents of vocalese, and having set many great solos to words, Jon Hendricks literalizes the idea that improvising is a form of telling stories.

It is still story telling, but it is closer to the personal form of telling a child a story, building to a climax rather that giving it all away in the intro.

There was a basic triangle: Larry Jefff, his manager, who helps get him into trouble (usually in the form of telling lies and keeping secrets, Larry being spectacularly bad at the latter); and Cheryl, his wife, who calls him to account.

Pitted against him are a bitterly cold GP and a deputy headmaster crippled by irreconcilable ambivalence towards his son, an unnervingly self-possessed adolescent whose subversion takes the unusual but highly effective form of telling the truth.

Comics as I've stated before are a very vast art form capable of telling any kind of story.

Fortunately, one has come along in the form of Tell Me Something I Don't Know, a collaboration between Stephen J Dubner and the New York Times (iTunes).