Sentence examples for occasion writing from inspiring English sources

Alben Barkley had many of the attributes of a bloviating politician, but he did rise to this singular occasion, writing to Roosevelt that "there is something broader and more fundamental than any personal acquiescence as between you and me over matters of public policy and fundamental principles".

Physically active and energetic, Reed keenly followed his old school's fortunes on the sports field, on one occasion writing anxiously to the school about its apparent loss of enthusiasm for football and cricket.

Drunks who urinate in public and shout "What's the matter with you!" if you register any sign of disapproval, zap! Anyone on a reality TV show, zap! Bono, zap! Ross for being crass, zap! Sachs for whingeing, zap! Jon Gaunt for looking like a torturer and on occasion writing like one, zap zap zap!

Perhaps there might be a prize created for an account of the occasion written in her most extreme style.

Some of my correspondents feel I should know this history of hers, just as others have on occasion written to explain which ballerinas have histories of scoliosis.

On one occasion wrote about widowers courtship of his second wife at his first wife's grave, but found it necessary to leave town for a few days.

"[Chastain] is essentially asked here to carry a movie for the first time, and she rises to the occasion," wrote Scott Feinberg for The Hollywood Reporter.

"Gibson should get the tsk-tsk award for lowering his impressive acting talent on occasion," wrote a priest known as Father Moderator on the Internet posting board Traditio.

Williams's involvement with his fantasy world was so intense that sometimes, according to his friend Gore Vidal, who on occasion wrote in the same room with him, he would react out loud to the events taking shape on his typewriter.

On July 4, 1862, Dodgson and his friend Robinson Duckworth, fellow of Trinity, rowed the three children up the Thames from Oxford to Godstow, picnicked on the bank, and returned to Christ Church late in the evening: "On which occasion," wrote Dodgson in his diary, "I told them the fairy-tale of Alice's Adventures Underground, which I undertook to write out for Alice".

Friends who know of my vast, cached archive of e-mails will, on occasion, write to me for copies of messages they'd sent me weeks or months–or sometimes years earlier.