Sentence examples for manner of telling from inspiring English sources

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The letters provide little that historians cannot find information about elsewhere, but Sévigné's manner of telling her stories makes her version of current events and gossip unforgettable.

This is to say that, for the director, as often as not, what is important is the manner of telling his tale.

But it is also true that Kennedy's circuitous structures typically suggest a mystery or crisis at their core, in fact gain their traction from the promise of a revelation, and where there isn't one – or where it remains too obscure to discern – the manner of telling seems more habit or trick than necessity.

Classical ballet has its own particular, stylized manner of telling a story and it requires extensive training to master.

Poet and Drew University literature professor Ross Gay described Stern's work, saying that his poems "feel to me, often, a bit like that story, or rather, his manner of telling it: here is my pain, here is my sorrow, here is the song I've made of it".

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You may be noticing striking differences in their living standards, their sense of entitlement, their manner socially or their way of telling you about their lives".

The story told and the manner of its telling conjoin in Caravaggio's work.

Nor did the manner of his telling disguise the fact that someone had told him what would be funny to say.

Over the years, I've seen police lie to children in all manner of ways, telling them they had failed lie detector tests, telling one child that his dead sister's blood was found in his bedroom and a different boy that his father had awakened from a coma after a shot of adrenaline and told police the boy was his assailant.

But it is the manner of their telling that he cherishes most.

The story is a muted melodrama made strange and haunting by the manner of its telling.

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