Sentence examples for my desertion from inspiring English sources

During a stint as Time's Japan bureau chief, he co-wrote Charles Jenkins's memoir about deserting the US army for life in North Korea, The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea (2008).

I switched to exercise class and never regretted my desertion.

Later, I discovered the cause of the mass desertion: my event had been perceived as being "women only".

And if Yeats's erotic wanderings were pathetic, even an old man's pathos finds itself transmuted in the last lines of "The Circus Animals' Desertion": Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

This is not the only way in which words seem to matter ever less to my generation, and not the only way in which this desertion may be the bitter price of a good thing: a world that talks to itself more easily than ever, by taking the art of talking less seriously.

"God help me!", lamented James on discovering the desertion of his daughter on 26 November, "Even my children have forsaken me".

He had married my mother to placate his parents; they were willing to accept his desertion as long as he had a wife.

One of my favorite passages from Smiling Damned Villain is an account of Lund's desertion in Egypt during World War Two.

In his poem, "The Circus Animals' Desertion", he describes the inspiration for these late works: Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

In one poem the narrator tries and fails to cook a "dish from my past" for his English lover and is swamped by feelings of guilt and loss: "my body craves / taste of home but is scolded / by shame of blood-desertion".

10.45am: My colleague Paolo Bandini points out that Tuttosport has the following story about North Korea and rumours of desertion.