Sentence examples for illuminating anecdotes from inspiring English sources

Those installments were pretty absorbing, but Friday's episode, about the actor Blair Underwood, gives them a run for their money in terms of compelling revelations and illuminating anecdotes.

In that vein, author Leslie Chang provides some illuminating anecdotes about self-invention in her recent book "Factory Girls," which the magazine noted in October.

Thank goodness, then, for Seriously... I'm Kidding (Grand Central Publishing; £17.59) by the US comic and chat-show host Ellen DeGeneres, which contains pretty much all you would expect from a top-flight comic: wit, intelligence and illuminating anecdotes.

Having assembled dozens of illuminating anecdotes, Vlasic and Stertz decided to begin their book with a four-paragraph description of the merger's importance so prosaic as to discourage a bookstore browser.

The book, a history of central bankers as firefighters, is sprinkled with similarly illuminating anecdotes about Mr. Bernanke and his crisis-years peers at the world's major central banks, particularly Mervyn King of the Bank of England and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank.

This handsome volume brims with wonderful pictures and illuminating anecdotes about Wright's mania for fine things; the forbearance of his loyal and generous patrons, whose trust he often stretched to the breaking point; and the boom-or-bust finances that kept his collection in a constant state of flux.

Being any of those things in a straight, WASP-y, cynically patriotic world posed its own strains, and Vaill's wealth of anecdotes illuminates that world, its shining moments and darker corners.

PublicAffairs; 336 pages; $26.99 and £17.99 An engrossing book by two young economists who draw on some intrepid research and a store of personal anecdotes to illuminate the lives of the 865m people who live on less than $0.99 a day.

In an engrossing new book they draw on some intrepid research and a store of personal anecdotes to illuminate the lives of the 865m people who, at the last count, live on less than $0.99 a day.The two economists made their names (and remade their discipline) by championing randomised trials.

This anecdote illuminates the central yet complex role of scripture in religious communities.

But her anecdote illuminates the countless ways that the lives and actions of the San Bernardino shooting victims are resonating with people.