Sentence examples for recounted from from inspiring English sources

Each is recounted from the point of view of an aging adult ruefully looking back at happier times of youth.

Such a dictionary, it was argued, would be a "historical monument"; it would represent "the history of a nation" recounted from a distinctive "point of view".

One district, the heavily Cuban-American city of Hialeah, Fla., is being recounted from scratch this week after questions about the initial count surfaced.

"Finally I prepared myself to die and said, 'There is no God, but God' and then I let go," he recounted from his hospital bed in this farming town, having regained consciousness there with a broken shoulder.

The problem is that there is something bloodless about these accounts: everything is recounted from a great distance, a distance so great that it flattens August's life into a nondescript landscape, devoid of any real interest.

This simple and affecting story set at the start of the 19th century is recounted from different perspectives by eight characters who inhabit or visit a tenanted farm in desolate western Finland.

It is disconcerting that the Bush campaign impeded the manual recounts from being properly conducted as allowed by the Florida Supreme Court.

Carolyn Brown's memoir, "Chance and Circumstance," recounts, from the inside, the exhilaration of working with Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Cage.

The book begins with a matter-of-fact retelling of the executions of Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin, which Danticat recounts from a documentary film she watched.

The personal costs of being a professional "witness" are made evident in an anecdote Lifton recounts from early in his career.

"I went with him because he was offering me work," she said, recounting from her small dark home the start of a tale that still brings tears three years later.