Sentence examples for got a flavour of from inspiring English sources

Jim Callaghan, then Labour's home secretary, got a flavour of his creed when he met him in Belfast.

It's hard to sum up the labyrinthine plot without spoiling it but it's got a flavour of seasonal film offerings such as It's a Wonderful Life.

For the designers working on their gardens for the Chelsea flower show, things just got real: at a press conference in London yesterday journalists got a flavour of what we'll see come May.

A meticulous researcher ("It's my way into the process. When I directed Holby City, I went and watched open heart surgery... .), she went to Camp Pendleton, in San Diego, where she met US marines up close, and got a flavour of their profession.

The negotiators got a flavour of them at what they insisted on calling a "stakeholder event" early in the week.

I'm not old enough to have watched, and at times this week I got a flavour of what it must have been to follow those legendary missions.

I was accepted as their embedded journalist to get a flavour of their version of protest.

Here, you can get a flavour of Thailand without the commercialism.

Luckily, I can get a flavour of mainstream Chinese pop without even leaving my hotel room.

No wonder you have to come this far out to get a flavour of the new Italy.

Many newspaper readers skim, sample or get a flavour of a story rather than reading it through.