Sentence examples for in the course of explaining from inspiring English sources

Father Georgy said, in the course of explaining how the cathedral came to be built, that he and his parishioners had dual citizenship already.

He's almost apologetic, actually, but in the course of explaining why he'd rather let the paintings speak for themselves, he ends up telling quite a bit.

The definitions of the major components of national income and product may, accordingly, be introduced in the course of explaining income and employment theory.

Ramirez told this not to the Red Sox front office which spent the winter trying, at his request, to trade him but to the pitcher Julian Tavarez, about a week before the car show, in the course of explaining, by the bye, that he wouldn't be joining the squad until March 1st.

In the course of explaining how she first met her Italian publishers (and the editors of Burned Children ) at a literary festival in Mantua, Smith writes that "I was cringing my way through a reading to a big crowd of non-English-understanding Italians, and Marco and Martina were sat in the front row grinning, wearing McSweeney's T-shirts.

Robin Nagle, the director of N.Y.U.'s Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought, cited this adage the other day in the course of explaining her new gig as the D.S.N.Y.'s official anthropologist-in-residence, a role that seems to involve at least as much cheerleading as it does scholarship.

This is probably inevitable, since even the craziest stuff has a way of becoming less so in the course of being explained.

In a post over the weekend, Posnanski coined the word "Jeterate," a verb meaning "to praise someone for something of which he or she is entirely unworthy of praise" in the course of a post explaining why fans of Derek Jeter, the Yankees shortstop, drive him "batty".

"I don't feel funny," he moans, and he spends the rest of the movie — which unfolds in New York, in the course of a day — explaining himself to a Times reporter, played by Rosario Dawson, while simultaneously coming to his senses, or trying to.

At the end of a week in which he resisted the temptation to slug it out with Alastair Campbell, and he evaded those journalists who turned up on his various doorsteps (Channel 4 reporter Alex Thompson's blog on this subject is very entertaining), the Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre chose the perfectly reasonable course of explaining himself in an authored piece in his own newspaper.

The latter happens to be an old college friend of Cal, who is now obliged to join forces with Della, in the course of which he explains the difference between hard news reporting and quick-fix blogging, not to mention the convenience of always having a pen handy – young people nowadays!