Sentence examples for like reports from inspiring English sources

But when the people protecting our safety tell us it's necessary, when television pundits debate the merits of torture, when your Facebook friends "like" reports about CIA officers threatening prisoners' families, then our moral base is jolted off its axis.

Harsent's war poems are like reports from another land, and make you conscious of the likely choice of subject matter for an English poet.

It unnerves me, like reports of extraterrestrial abductions.

Or then again, has its demise, like reports of the death of Mark Twain, been exaggerated?

In "Microtrends," the chapters all read like reports that Mr. Penn wrote for clients.

That genesis is described in the video clips on thecoldfront.org, which are styled like reports on local television newscasts.

In a strictly unscientific survey, people who tried to stop smoking, eating fattening foods or the like reported little success.

Also missing: Sarah Palin, though her absence did nothing to forestall Elvis-like reports that she had been spotted in the building.

Peter Osnos, the publisher of PublicAffairs, said the chapter-like reports provided an unusual glimpse into an investigation still in progress.

(Defoe's vexing and profound "Robinson Crusoe" was partly inspired by an explorer's journal, and Dickens's 1853 masterpiece "Bleak House" alternates subjective first-person narration with third-person journalistic-like reports about English law and society).

Since Morgan Stanley does not invite the news media to its conference, there is not expected to be the same paparazzi-like reports on Mr. Cohen that emerged last week from Davos.