I went to Geneva to leave testimony, for posterity given the demonstrable inefficacy of this august UN body, but I didn't expect that the dictatorships represented in the room would behave like a perfectly choreographed set of villains, as one would expect a dictatorship to behave.
Those who died in the camps left no testimonies, and, when I was growing up, the idea of writing imaginative literature for children about the death camps was considered almost sacrilegious.
Half-a-dozen late-Victorian literary men left rapt testimonies to the impact wrought on them by the scene in Thackeray's Pendennis in which Warrington marvels at "the great engine" of the printing press.
Tuberculosis (TB) is often remembered through long-dead artists and poets who left moving testimonies of the suffering it caused.
They even left her testimony on the monitors in the jury box while they gathered at the judge's bench.
Few individuals have inspired so much writing; everyone who came into contact with Picasso left a testimony, an anecdote, or a character sketch.
The voices of those such as Thomas Peters, who left written testimony of the hardships they endured and of their determined attempts to overcome them, are quoted at length, the directness of their sometimes pidgin rawness held up as a virtue rather than a shortcoming.
The quest for the testimonies left by the earthquake observers, i.e. those testimonies which withstood the passing of centuries, is just the first step of a systematic and painstaking reconstruction of what actually each individual place experienced the moment when the earth quaked, and its aftermath.
His work may be less familiar, but Lotto's character is far better known than any of these contemporaries because he left eloquent written testimonies to his own worried, defensive, isolated and frequently depressive cast of mind.
The testimony left Damon A. Silvers, a committee member who is special counsel to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., incredulous.
