Sentence examples for memoir on a from inspiring English sources

Ms. St. John got up to show me the folding table behind the counter where she wrote her memoir on a manual typewriter when business was slow.

If that makes the book sound mawkish or exploitative, or a misery memoir on a grand scale, it never feels at all like that.

The Brooklyn songwriter and poet Jasmine Dreame Wagner, in her own recent memoir, "On a Clear Day," learns to notice particularity — and to get outside her own wish to generalize, to let big theories explain her life.

The business minister Matthew Hancock, who was ribbed in a sketch last year, also said he was "so sorry to hear Simon Hoggart has died", adding: "I was reading his brilliant memoir on a lifetime in Westminster last night".

This phenomenon reminded me of a "jest" that Wittgenstein once made, recorded by his student Norman Malcolm, in a 1958 memoir: "On a walk, he 'gave' to me each tree that we passed, with the reservation that I was not to cut it down or do anything to it, or prevent the previous owners from doing anything to it: with these reservations it was henceforth mine".

But alas she splurged an advance for her memoirs on a Greek villa and never wrote them.

Pitt plays Chad Feldheimer, who accidentally obtains material for Cox's memoirs on a computer disc and is intent on trying to exploit the find.

Middle-class (and especially working) mothers are being elevated to sainthood; their sacrifices raised to martyrdom; their misery memoirs on a par with being tortured.

When President Anwar Sadat threw her in prison for her activism in 1981, she penned her memoirs on a roll of toilet paper.

And she was working on a book, a big, delightful mess of a manuscript that was a memoir on its way to a novel, about her adventures in the nineteen-sixties, as a cool, delicate American chick prowling the Piazza Navona.

April P earnestly keeps a journal; in fact, she wants to eventually turn it into a memoir, on the advice of a writing teacher she had.