Sentence examples for in long walk from inspiring English sources

His performance as Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom is already picking up Oscar buzz.

"I was cross rather than aroused by the chief's remarks," he wrote, in "Long Walk to Freedom," his autobiography, "dismissing his words as the abusive comments of an ignorant man who was unable to appreciate the value of the education and benefits that the white man had brought to our country".

Idris Elba had started it, with his scene-stealing portrayal of Stringer Bell, the aspirational drug dealer in The Wire, but lately, with Elba's uncanny portrayal of Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom, and Steve McQueen's Oscar-tipped 12 Years a Slave starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the influx is headline news.

Mandela was the guest, the host was Betsy Verwoerd, the 94-year-old widow of the notorious President Hendrik Verwoerd, whose killing in 1966 had brought no pleasure to his opponents imprisoned on Robben Island – in Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela asserted that neither he nor the ANC had ever supported political assassination.

In Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela wrote that for black South Africans, the Chancellor House offices were "a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin colour".

Elba was nominated for his role as Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom.

Calling the Upper West Side a lebedik place, she reveled in long walks along Broadway.

Its central figure, George, retires, hoping to lose himself in "long walks and crossroads" and construct a studio in his back garden.

Some travelers complain that the expansion has resulted in long walks to and from many gates; that is made somewhat easier by moving sidewalks.

Mr. Kerry spent 20 hours over five days with Mr. Karzai, telling him over dinner and in long walks in the garden of the presidential palace in Kabul of his own frustrations at the ballot box in 2004.

The days passed in long beach walks, chats with the locals, swimming in the shallow warm waters and lazing beside the small hotel pool.