Sentence examples for old anecdotes from inspiring English sources

"Then the story is me repeating the same old anecdotes to myself".

He has an ear for the ways in which stories glue people together: legends, calcified old anecdotes, necessary falsifications.

This is either to help her make Josh Brolin safe, or to just rattle off a load of folksy old anecdotes about all the horrible things he's seen.

The plan is to give viewers some fresh material, not the same old anecdotes that actors on publicity tours repeat to every talk show host.

Reporters dug up old anecdotes, like when Ms. Rice once questioned whether the United States should embrace the term "genocide" in Rwanda because it could put President Bill Clinton in an awkward position in midterm elections.

She has a tendency to go into autopilot; at first, she more or less ignores my questions, dusting off instead old anecdotes I've read a dozen times before (about Russell Harty, with whom she was unlikely pals as a young woman; about her passion for 18th-century literature; about the time some feminists jeered at her when she read aloud some poems about breastfeeding).

It is an old anecdote coming out a little more than three months before an election.

Mr. Holzer points out that The New York Daily News mocked the president-elect as an "inveterate old anecdote monger".

There's an old anecdote, perhaps apocryphal, about a writer who tweaked his enemies by moving their volumes, whenever he went into a bookstore, into the humor section.

He doesn't demur: "I've made a joke that is both glib and I suppose slightly tasteless about her being an illustration of the old anecdote that it isn't remarkable that the dog lost playing chess -- it's the fact that the dog plays chess.

An old anecdote renders the idea of what we mean by "the phantom of the structure": a hammer is essentially composed of two parts: the handle and the head.