Sentence examples for memoir testimony from inspiring English sources

In his big and buoyant new memoir, "Testimony," Robertson, who is seventy-three, doesn't necessarily dispel the various myths, legends, and criticisms that have attached themselves to him.

In fact, if not an authentic memoir, "Testimony" is still a work of considerable literary power, a suggestive account of the music and a convincing portrait of the man who composed it.

By Ian Crouch December 8, 2016 In his big and buoyant new memoir, "Testimony," the former Band member Robbie Robertson, right, doesn't necessarily dispel the various myths, legends, and criticisms that have attached themselves to him.

As for debates, the organization is demonstrating which side of at least one debate it favors by presenting Solomon Volkov, the author of Shostakovich's as-told-to memoirs, "Testimony".

There are those who take as gospel everything that appeared in the composer's much-disputed volume of memoirs, Testimony, taking it as licence to interpret all his major works as coded acts of dissent against the Soviet regime, and there are those who regard the man's life and his music as separate, and take what he composed at face value.

In 1979, a book purporting to be Shostakovich's memoir, entitled "Testimony," appeared in the West, depicting a frustrated composer who despised Communism and hid veiled critiques of the Soviet regime in his music.

You know what a memoir is? Testimony.

Wagner's memoirs bear testimony to this "revelation of a new world," which he experienced at Berlioz's hands in 1839.

It also cross-references Nazi memoirs and testimony from a welter of war crimes proceedings, including the trial of the camp's commandant, Rudolf Höss, who was hanged in 1947.

It is true that all personal letters and documents between Braun and Hitler were destroyed on Hitler's orders in the last days of the war, and that specific information is to be found only in the memoirs and testimony of those who served him — and who, when the war was lost, served themselves.

Gildea has benefited not only from documents long kept closed, but from the vast literature that has been building up over the past 20 years, in the form of memoirs, oral testimonies and local histories.