Sentence examples for memoir try from inspiring English sources

His charming, slight memoir, "Try to Tell the Story," which follows him to the age of 18, is the most intimate book yet from this most personal, intellectually present of critics, and it is largely about absence.

I don't know if I can support myself doing this but I'm working on a book – a memoir trying to put it all together.

To say this is to take poetry for a lifestyle: Sebastian's memoir tries to understand that lifestyle, and to find something in it to admire.

During the seventies and eighties, he remained "hunched over a sort of periscope, peering down a little green tube," as he wrote in an unpublished memoir, trying to answer his own question: How does a neuron's axon find its way to its appropriate target?

Braudy, a professor of film studies at USC, wrote numerous books about film studies and cultural history before embarking on a memoir, "Trying to Be Cool: Growing up in the 1950s," published in 2013.

Two new memoirs try to capture the essence of the people the authors love but have lost.Elizabeth Alexander, a professor of African-American studies at Yale and author of several books of poems and essays, is best known for composing "Praise Song for the Day", a poem for Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.

Minor score-settling aside, though, previous White House memoirs tried to appear reflective, above the fray, and candid about mistakes that were made.

But Mr. Hoffman said Memoir would try to distinguish itself by offering users a search function that lets people find all the photos — or memories — from a particular year, city or with a particular friend.

When Pope didn't get his way, Morgan claims in his memoir, he tried to pull rank among the Republicans by citing his family's money.

Levy examines these questions and others in her memoir about trying to have it all.

My point is, while I'm not usually reserved in my opinions and speak my mind quite freely (which can be dangerous when you've also got a hot temper), in writing my memoir, I tried to just tell the story and let the reader decide in the end if our thirty years together fits the true meaning of what a marriage is all about in every way that really matters.