Sentence examples for of personal anecdotes from inspiring English sources

* Beware of personal anecdotes.

Like much of Dr. Slater's work "Opening Skinner's Box" is full of personal anecdotes and interpretations.

Mr Malcomson's book is notable for his adroit weaving of personal anecdotes with media criticism and discussions of policy.

He had a seemingly inexhaustible reserve of personal anecdotes about everyone from Babe Ruth to Pete Rose, Sonny Liston to Joe Namath, Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon.

For users confronting collapsed contexts on Facebook, the withholding of personal anecdotes and information isn't a problem – it is a solution.

The author, Henry Kamm, had been reporting on Southeast Asia for the Times for decades, and the book was full of personal anecdotes.

The power of personal anecdote will so often trump a scientific, cost-benefit analysis – that is human nature.

The mixture here of personal anecdote, some social theory, and official statistics, make this an often surprising, and always revealing and rewarding, read.

A poetry that has elsewhere excavated its language from the communal unconscious has a hard time adopting the mode of personal anecdote.

It was the sort of personal anecdote that Mrs. Clinton is highlighting this week, a week that her campaign has devoted to appealing to working women and mothers.

I can only hope that my book, like Norbury's, will be a beguiling amalgam of personal anecdote, travelogue and family history, in which details from one woman's troubled life provide a documentary authenticity and truthfulness in the telling.