Sentence examples for had recently directed from inspiring English sources

Steve Rosenthal, the political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said the labor federation's president, John J. Sweeney, had recently directed union officials to go to "war footing".

Jeff Garlin, an acquaintance from the comedy clubs, had recently directed HBO specials for the comedians Jon Stewart and Denis Leary.

The deceptively youthful Matt Johnson had recently directed and starred in a comedy webseries, Nirvana The Band The Show, about a couple of desperate, deluded musicians on the make.

After joining the film in the role of the professor as well as a producer, Mr. Gere recruited Mr. Hallstrom, who had recently directed him in "The Hoax," a 2007 film about the forger Clifford Irving.

She had recently directed a film of her own, "The Blue Light," which brought into the open the mysticism of the mountain genre: Riefenstahl played an otherworldly girl, spiritually tied to the beauty of a crystal-lined cave on a mountaintop, who dies when greedy villagers hack out the crystal.

When Nigel Redden, who directs both Spoleto USA and the Lincoln Center Festival, encouraged them to create a new staging, they approached the Singaporean director Ong Keng Sen, who had recently directed a staging of "King Lear" in which each role was recast in a different Asian genre, from Chinese opera to Japanese Noh theater.

And George, you've recently directed "This Is How It Goes" at the Public.

Emil Nava is a director with Pulse Films and has recently directed a series of music videos for MasterCard's Priceless Remakes.

He's an associate director at the National Theatre, where he has recently directed Greenland, the National's daring, extensively-researched contribution to the debate about climate change.

Legislators, journalists, and researchers alike have recently directed a great deal of attention to the effects of cellular telephone ('cell phone') use on driver behavior and performance.

Double Oscar winner Spacey played the same character on stage in Inherit The Wind and 22 years ago in the PBS film Darrow, whose director John David Coles has recently directed Spacey in three episodes of Netflix drama House of Cards.