Sentence examples for moving anecdotes from inspiring English sources

He wove several moving anecdotes about his experiences as a prisoner of war in Vietnam into a speech in which he emphasized his consistent record of opposition to abortion.

Among the more moving anecdotes, her grandmother remembers Peggy Jorgensen dismissing those who might make life difficult for an interracial couple, insisting, "Nobody is going to interfere with my happiness".

In one of the book's most moving anecdotes, he tells how Wagner, whose often turbulent relationship with Wood is probably about as close as you can get to a grand movie-star love story, ran into Wood at a party some years after the two had divorced, and before their second marriage.

Here's a moving anecdote about Amiralay from Wright's piece: In 1978, in conjunction with the French journal Cahiers du Cinéma, the club sponsored two weeks of "cinema and politics".

"It's a huge leap forward to moving from anecdote to science and from science to solutions for women who have had post-treatment issues with breast cancer which is incredibly common, all too common".

And show they do: every larger point, about human trafficking laws, for example, or global maternal health, is introduced by an explicit, moving, illustrative anecdote, so that the larger narrative is suffused with stories that keep the issues focused and comprehensible.

"You clean it up and you might move some anecdotes around and paragraphs around.

She has a unique style – as she moves through anecdotes and observations, her subject matter moves effortlessly between the mundane and the political, the personal to the observational, exceedingly silly to searingly poignant.

At last week's WHO meeting in Geneva, researchers who want to conduct clinical trials for Ebola treatments met with regulators, pharmacologists, and representatives from the three most affected countries to work out how to move from anecdotes to hard evidence and which drugs to test.

Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that this might be true, and in Chicago recently the evidence has moved beyond anecdote.

Smartest move Personal anecdote about his father arranging an informal payment plan with the doctor that delivered him: "no paperwork... just two guys in a hospital, shaking hands", which is an awesome system for dealing with health care if absolutely nothing goes wrong.