Sentence examples for instead of writing about from inspiring English sources

But then why not just wait until it shakes out a little instead of writing about geopolitics as if it were fashion-world gossip?

Even Colm Tóibín can't muster much sympathy for Klaus, whose self-destructiveness becomes essentially a literary failure (though suicide, too, ran in the family): "instead of writing about death as his father did," Tóibín notes, "he allowed the aura of death to enter his own spirit".

Instead of writing about that unique experience and the discipline and stamina it required, he wrote a cookie-cutter essay about wanting to work in finance.

"Instead of writing about a prostitute, we were going to get prostitutes to write for us".

Newsweek is writing about Paul Krugman instead of writing about what Paul Krugman is saying.

Instead of writing about it, Spender made sure that Plante was recording it for him.

According to Sugar Ray Norcia... "People have been asking me why I haven't written a song about my wife instead of always writing about drinking, lying, and cheating.

I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology.

Instead we have plumbed the depths of writing about it.

Since the majority of relatives were partners of the patient, we often refer to 'the partner' (instead of the patient) while writing about relatives' experiences.

Stephanie Zacharek wrote that the movie "Veronica Guerin," about the life of the murdered Irish journalist, was made "because we live in an age when we make movies about our folk heros instead of writing ballads about them" ["How Hollywood Handled the Story of an Irish Folk Hero," Sept. 7].