Sentence examples for had steeped from inspiring English sources

He had steeped himself in the peerage law and presented his own case.

As Peckinpah's biographer David Weddle notes, the director had steeped himself in the work of the anthropologist Robert Ardrey at the time he made Straw Dogs.

He had bought the bug at Maxilla & Mandible, the famous Manhattan emporium, on a childhood visit to New York, and its form had steeped in his imagination.

Three weeks earlier, under Mr. Verzi's supervision, the Patafios had steeped Munich and caramel malts in water, heated it, added malt extract and then added hops.

But Lévi-Strauss had grown to intellectual maturity as a wartime exile in New York, where he had steeped himself in Americanist ethnography in the Boasian, cultural tradition.

At the season premiere a week before, René Pape — a tall European, though not blond, and a fixture in the Met's "Tristan" since 1999 — had steeped the king's laments in a wintry isolation.

(Sir Tom has steeped himself in Chekhov, having adapted "The Seagull" for Sir Peter Hall in 1997).

Adelman, who has steeped himself in early-19th-century England, talks about this.

Lately she has steeped herself in Emily Dickinson's poetry and Emerson's essays.

Ever since the World Cup match, Mr. Doctoroff has steeped himself in his magnificent obsession.

He has steeped himself in her many novels and begins to haltingly make his arguments.