Sentence examples for memoir served from inspiring English sources

Sheeran doesn't have the eye for detail of a Henry Hill, the oily suburban Judas whose memoir served as the basis for the movie "Goodfellas," but he makes up for it with cool, silencer-smooth prose.

Szpilman's memoir served as a basis for a screenplay, written as early as 1945 by the Polish writers Jerzy Andrzejewski and Czesław Miłosz, entitled Robinson of Warsaw.

Eddie Huang, whose memoir "Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir" served as inspiration for the show, railed against the promo on his Twitter account..@originalspin @whoismims someone please reverse this @FreshOffABC at least they didn't do the native american with chicken pox blankie lol.

She's honest, entertaining and never boring, and this memoir serves a purpose far beyond the confessional.

After the war, Johnston engaged in business ventures, wrote his memoirs, served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1879 81), and was named U.S. commissioner of railroads in 1885.

And many prison memoirs serve as survival strategies, with the authors frequently citing Friedrich Nietzsche's famous aphorism "That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger".

Frank's narrative has a liberal helping of self-conscious wickedness about the narcissism with which we tell our own stories and the platitudes that memoirs serve up in the place of accountability.

The 1943 Hollywood movie "So Proudly We Hail," starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake as Army nurses in the Philippines, was based on the memoir "I Served on Bataan," by Lt. Juanita Redmond, who was among nearly two dozen nurses evacuated from Corregidor shortly before it fell.

Just as the portrayal of me in Keith's memoir Life served Keith's agenda.

Robert L. Hardesty, who wrote speeches for President Lyndon B. Johnson, helped write and edit Johnson's memoirs and served as president of Johnson's alma mater, died on Monday in Austin, Tex.

From Herbert Hoover's memoirs (Financier Andrew Mellon served as Secretary of the Treasury under presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover).