Sentence examples for rather overheard from inspiring English sources

With characteristic deliberation, the author of "Trains of Thought," an emblematic account of the displacements of a bourgeois Jewish childhood, locates his ultimate linguistic orientation: "I do not have a 'mother tongue.'... Mama's native language was Russian, which I heard, or rather overheard, from early childhood but was not encouraged to speak until some years later.

And somehow it feels to the audience that they're not being shilled to, but rather overhearing a shopping tip in the ladies' room.

Wouldn't you rather overhear her giggling over Rebecca West or the Sitwells than, say, cope with a passage like this from her unpublished autobiographical novel, "The Gift": "Under every shrine to Zeus, to Jupiter, to Zeus-pater or Theus-pater or God-the-father, there is an earlier altar.

Orchestrated as part of an official design, they feel barked out rather than overheard.

This revelation is, in truth, slightly disturbing, rather like overhearing Anita Brookner declare that she has given up on Poussin and now prefers Andy Warhol instead.

Moses doesn't therefore hear God speaking to him directly in the Tent of Meeting; rather, he overhears God speaking to God's self.

Oswald here attacks those who question the freedom of the artistic life as "moralising cretins", and the terrifying moment when Oswald repeats the patterns of the past by seductively flirting with the maid is surely more effective when overheard rather than seen, as it is with the aid of Tim Hatley's transparent-walled set.

Nervous, depressed and distrustful, this was when the Go-Betweens focused their attention on what Forster described as "feelings in the bedroom, Brisbane, driving my car and anything from overheard conversations" rather than attempting to address universal themes.

This may not have occurred to you, but it struck us as rather interesting when we overheard a comment that most of the news photographs of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were shot using digital cameras.

Acting as a kind of fulcrum to the village of Fulbeck in Lincolnshire – a shire to which (due to its location, house prices and landscape) I'm convinced a chunk of my generation will end up moving – this pub used to have a rather Gothic upper level, in which overheard whispers subtracted from each table's privacy.

Childish not in the sense of being simple, but rather because it reminds me of times I overheard my parents and their friends at parties.