Sentence examples for often the stuff of from inspiring English sources

The cat patterns that arrived with the first blast of fall dressing are often the stuff of accessories.

The footage that could be raising our level of political engagement is often the stuff of grisly home entertainment.

Love and death are the themes of the great novels, but the emotion that links love and death – grief – is more often the stuff of memoir than fiction.

Thick bean soups scented with rosemary, braised beans, pasta with cured pork and pecorino, artichokes cooked in ingenious ways, greens tossed with olive oil, offal – often the stuff of uneasy merriment – coaxed into deliciousness.

Parties that go wrong are often the stuff of great drama (think of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, Pinter's The Birthday Party, TS Eliot's The Family Reunion) and this play, directed with panache by Adam Penford, is no exception.

Meals in stories are often the stuff of dreams or even nightmares, like the narrow escape Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten has from being baked in a pie by Samuel Whiskers.

Politics has more often been the stuff of documentary than drama of late.

These are welcome developments in an era where resorting to bombs has all too often been the stuff of global politics.

As for courage -- which too often is the stuff of mystifying legends about heroes on pedestals -- Assange's observations might help us to grasp how it can gradually be summoned from within ourselves.

Nobody recalled anyone pirouetting on lunchroom tables as in the movie "Fame," which was based mostly on Performing Arts, but their memories of dancing, painting and singing their way through adolescence often sounded like the stuff of which movies are made.

Without such impressive writing, family drama even in a strange, volatile land is often just family drama — the stuff of all memoirs.