Sentence examples for instead of recounting from inspiring English sources

These are autobiographies that usually emphasize what is remembered rather than who is remembering; the author, instead of recounting his life, deals with those experiences of his life, people, and events that he considers most significant.

Instead of recounting how your heart fluttered so when you kissed your lover on the boardwalk at midnight, reminisce about how it rained on both of you just after, or how your dinner was a disaster, or how ridiculous your cab driver was.

Instead of simply recounting the life and analyzing the poems, Plumly pursues his intuitions through a series of linked essays, all of them concerned with aspects of the poet's death and afterlife.

"In The Cypress Tree, I wanted instead to recount tales of the beautiful country where I grew up, with a rich history that has influenced so much in western culture, where love and belly laughs were plentiful, where turquoise tiles glittered on walls, and where there was jasmine on the breeze and ruby-red pieces of pomegranate lovingly peeled by an army of aunts.

The method of recounting disputed votes is itself disputed.

So instead of spending pages recounting your many virtues and getting all weepy and sappy, I've decided to take this opportunity to impart a little more motherly advice before you head off to college.

Instead, Hannah recounts a sequence of unhappy, small incidents of the type which might mark any young woman's adolescence.

Instead he recounts a story of his own insensitivity.

Instead, he recounted the discovery and development of one of the most significant tools for modern biotechnology: the green fluorescent protein, or G.F.P., used widely in cell and molecular biology as a visual tracer.

Instead they recounted their own narrative, of repeated harassment by the authorities.

"Instead of wasting time on recounting some ballot boxes... cancel the vote," he wrote in a letter to the Guardian Council.