Sentence examples for kept me closer from inspiring English sources

- Posted by K In my case the lack of education helped in two ways: First, it kept me closer to "the common man," the American consumer.

In the end I went for something that kept me closer to my by-then comfort zone: a first-person narrative set on a remote Scottish nearly-island told by a normality-challenged teenager with severe violence issues allowed me to treat my story as something resembling SF.

It kept me close to the game.

I could have easily used the grill, but a heat-induced lethargy kept me close to the air-conditioning.

He traces that sense of himself to his mother, a concert pianist's daughter, who, he said, "always kept me close to 'culture,' to Nietzsche, Goethe and Wagner".

"I would have thought it would have kept me in the hunt and kept me close, but I'm kind of doing what I have to right now to get the ball in the hole and to score.

"I'm the youngest of three boys, and my mother wisely kept me close while the other two were plotting to kill me," its chef Jeremy Lee tells me in the bar one day after lunch.

It "kept me close, available, ready to help, kept us fed, kept me sufficiently focused on present tasks so that I wouldn't panic about the future, kept me going through the slow passing of a string of bad days, weeks and months".

That kept me close to my roots.

It had kept me close to the pulse of the city during 9/11, and it didn't disappoint at this renewed juncture in the story line.

"It keeps me close to the earth".