Sentence examples for memoir fails from inspiring English sources

The thudding screenplay, adapted by Paula Milne and Susan Shilliday from Kuki Gallmann's memoir, fails to capture the spontaneous rhythms and inflections of everyday speech.

Published several years later (see Further reading), the memoir fails to mention Arnold at all.

Yet this memoir holds your interest in a way most showbiz memoirs fail to do.

But that doesn't always do the trick, as Simon & Schuster found out when Ronald Reagan's memoirs failed to fly off the shelves in 1990.

Writing these tiny memoirs never fails to be a favorite lesson of the year.

Young New York writer gets big advance for memoir that tanks; fails to become Lena Dunham; ends up broke and borrowing from boyfriend; sheds illusions; but (happy-ish ending) completes first novel.

(3) It turns out to have been ill-advised to assume that Xenophon would apply the same criteria for accuracy to his Socratic discourses as to his histories.[4] The biographical and historical background Xenophon deploys in his memoirs of Socrates fails to correspond to such additional sources as we have from archaeology, history, the courts, and literature.

But where Ms. Wright's album largely fails, her memoir succeeds.

"I Was a Maoist Intellectual in the Music Industry" is the doleful memoir of a failed musical revolutionary: "My downfall came from being three things the working classes hated: / Agitated, organised and over-educated".

Taylor, who has published five books of his own, including "Falling," a searing memoir of his failed first marriage, has a dry wit and a long fuse; the nurturing world he makes with Walls is the antithesis of her mother's.

I wrote a book proposal for the memoir of our failed adoption and hired a professional writing coach I trusted to review it before I sent it to agents.