Sentence examples for once called that from inspiring English sources

But they are fast approaching what Democratic message-meister Chris Lehane once called "that unspinnable place", where the truth comes crashing through the door.

Worse, they fill the page with their standup punchlines, adopting what Garrison Keillor once called that "giddy tone of voice" that is "the writing equivalent of a clown suit".

In other words, let's not deny the solemn burdens that Bergman chose to shoulder: hope and despair, shame and silence, and what Samuel Beckett once called "that desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love".

He is fascinated by Pontius Pilate, whose decision to hand Christ over for crucifixion (that is what the pollsters said the voters wanted) he once called that of "an archetypal politician, torn between principle and reality".

She could fathom and depict in her work the immensity of creation in a homespun style reminiscent of what Willa Cather once called "that irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand" (2 ).

William Cronon, in his essay "The Trouble with Wilderness," writes, acidly, "The myth of the wilderness as 'virgin' uninhabited land had always been especially cruel when seen from the perspective of the Indians who had once called that land home.

Indeed, Mr. Kuhlmann has a view of lowlands, once called Holland Marsh, that belonged to the estate of Jean Paul Jacquet, vice director under Peter Stuyvesant of the Dutch Colony on the South (Delaware River) from 1655 to 1677.

Silliness, lest you thought it was lost altogether, all but defines "Betwixt!" — the loopy musical that was once called "Enchanted" and that has extended its run at the 98-seat Trafalgar Studios 2, even as its American star, Ellen Greene, left the production this weekend to return home.

He was said to be so widely known that newscasters in Sweden were once called "Cronkiters," but that term is not known to linguists in that country.

I must say I hadn't realised just how stark the evidence is from the place I once called home; or that, taken together, this constitutes the end of retail as we know it.

Re-meet the zoetrope, a machine once called "the pipe that makes fantasies appear".