Sentence examples for legend writing from inspiring English sources

Ratliff patiently explicates Coltrane's legend, writing in short, aphoristic bursts, often as elliptically as his subject played tenor saxophone, but never less than lucidly.

The interplay of public and private life became essential to the making of the Search, but in the end, living on chilled beer and ice-cream, creatively immured in his cork-lined room, venturing forth only after dark, Proust becomes the supreme French writer of legend, writing and rewriting against the clock as if in the midst of an emergency.

To better understand Sifford's era and legacy, we quote one legend, writing about another.

The first film from a Columbus script, "Gremlins," had the cheeky cheesiness of an urban legend written for Marvel Comics.

The diverse room buzzed as DJs played classic Prince songs, spliced with tracks by artists the legend wrote songs for.

An idolatrous biography, "The Van Cliburn Legend," written by the pianist and composer Abram Chasins, with Villa Stiles, was published in 1959.

J. R. R. Tolkien's two-hundred-page treatment of the King Arthur legend, written in alliterative verse, will be published next year.

"We should have done it a lot sooner," Royal said in "Coach Royal: Conversations With a Texas Football Legend," written with John Wheat.

The earliest of all extant manuscripts of the Insular style is the Cathach ("Battler") of St. Columba (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), who, according to legend, wrote it himself and, in the judgment of scholars, may actually have done so.

"I'm surprised and appalled by your decision to publish Roger Lewis's review of our book Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend," writes Dale in a letter to the Spectator.

Using the text of the legend, written in verse on clay tablets, Mr. Bibby and his colleagues established a connection between Dilmun, presumed to be a mythical paradise, and Bahrain, the very real island off the coast of Saudi Arabia.