Sentence examples for mining material for from inspiring English sources

Now, watching the news, it is dawning on Mr. Obama's former students that he was mining material for his political future even as he taught them.

The three-hour class meets once a week for a month, helping students mine material for their infant shows; an advanced class concentrates on polishing and performing.

Zebrowski did find many such sources, but too often he makes the mistake of simply reproducing large portions of text rather than mining his material for its most precious elements.

Variety's Justin Chang was also positive, though slightly less effusive, writing, "This smug but effective middlebrow crowdpleaser boasts a sharper set of dentures than most films of its type, shrewdly mining its material for laughs and righteous anger as well as tears".

Los Angeles continues to be a rich mine of material for writers and a metaphor for the nation.

A more thoughtful work might have mined the material for some kind of postfeminist (or at least post- Seinfeld") freshness.

The young artists involved played the roles of both consumers and critics, and mined their material for quasi-narrative drama.

Since he set down whatever word first came to his mind, the book is an unrivalled mine of material for the psychoanalyst.

Most likely it was the opportunity to mine this material for new emotional layers that attracted Mr. Shanley to the idea of an opera.

Although he set the manuscript aside and later destroyed all the copies in his possession, Heinlein went on to mine this material for his most distinctive short stories and novels.

The historian Lawrence Webster mined the material for a book, "Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham" (WoodstockArts), and an exhibition that opens on Saturday at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.