Sentence examples for memoir for example from inspiring English sources
Carter's memoir, for example, was as big a stinker as any other Presidential doorstopper with an embossed dust jacket and an overoptimistic press run.
In Tina Fey's memoir, for example, she explains that she felt comfortable joking about Bristol Palin's pregnancy (for the skit available here) because so many people had embraced that narrative as a pro-life credential for Sarah Palin, but that a drafted joke about John McCain's melanoma was "too rough" because the studio audience, in dress rehearsals, hadn't found it funny.
There is nothing in Coetzee's memoir, for example, like the comic dialogue of the West Indian hero's affair with his Panamanian mentor's coarse but luscious girlfriend, June, who works behind a perfume counter and exudes its aura along with blunt sexual advice, or of the lefter-than-thou snobbery of well-heeled bohemia.
When she's musing on the art of the memoir, for example, she states: "Perhaps all memory is a chance at storytelling and every story brings us closer to revealing ourselves to ourselves".
But if you're writing a personal essay (for a course on writing a memoir, for example), then you'll get to use more comfortable, informal language.
✒Celebrity memoirs, for example.
The unpublished Nixon memoirs, for example, a Grosset & Dunlap hopeful in hardcover and Warner Books property in paperback, are back at the same old stands.
The Peanut Press version of " 'Tis: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt, for example, comes in at a staggering 1,958 pages, compared with 367 pages for the hardcover edition.
The best pieces in Gallagher's memoir acknowledge this— "Stay," for example, which is a short and moving reaffirmation of commitment to her husband of many years, who began to suffer debilitating complications from multiple sclerosis not long after they fell in love.
Something like a travel book or memoir of famous figure, for example, might be a good option.
I have a great love for his small, tender things - the memoirs of Pennsylvania boyhood, for example - and doubt there would be as many without a magazine to need them.
