Sentence examples for in a telling from inspiring English sources

But in a telling — or perhaps just novelistic?

The editors of Cahiers summarized Truffaut's remarks in a telling headline: "Let's Imitate Hitchcock".

However in a telling move, the broadcasters have plumped to recommit to Freeview.

Yet in a telling sign of the complexities of Burmese society, his hard-driving music is popular with civil servants.

("People sometimes walk and talk and they're fast asleep," one character says, in a telling throwaway line).

And in a telling sign of the future of the community, 13 babies were listed as having one white and one Hispanic parent.

But in a telling sign of how the regime's authority was crumbling in its waning years, the censor in chief had a double life.

(As Claridge notes in a telling aside, Post didn't like to talk about "distressing matters, or even think about them much").

Romney, in his convention speech, never uttered it, and Obama, in his, said those three syllables just once, in a telling context.

People do not have to be taught to like cheesecake or sexy pictures (which, in a telling use of the language, are sometimes also referred to as "cheesecake").

But in a telling sign of the severity of his illness, Mr. Chávez apparently sent no greeting to the crowds wishing him well.