Sentence examples for scrap of knowledge from inspiring English sources

I knew that his wife Eleanor was famously progressive, that when the African-American Marian Anderson was refused permission to sing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall the First Lady arranged for her to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (an especially gratifying scrap of knowledge, this: it's not in the film!).

That latter fact has always seemed the most salient scrap of knowledge about Tom Waits's much mythologised background ("I was conceived one night in April 1949 at the Crossroads Motel in La Verne, amidst the broken bottle of Four Roses, the smouldering Lucky Strike, half a tuna salad sandwich…" and so on).

He moved fluently from fiction to criticism, from light verse to short stories to the long-distance form of the novel: a literary decathlete in our age of electronic distraction and willful specialization, Victorian in his industriousness and almost blogger-like in his determination to turn every scrap of knowledge and experience into words.

Beginning in the 1960s, Mr. Lyles used every scrap of knowledge he had picked up on the studio lot to create low-budget westerns with well-known if slightly faded stars, turning out some 17, of them, none of which lost money.

But even working at full strength these cops will be Kops, hilariously stymied by Shakespearean verse and beating their brains to summon whatever scraps of knowledge they picked up in high-school English classes.

But whether it was a worried spouse, an NBC News reporter or someone who believed missiles had been fired from the Woolworth Building at the trade center, the callers found officers who, by and large, kept their composure under tremendous duress and passed along the scraps of knowledge they had been able to glean within the constrained universe of their desks.

Then one day Luisa, who knows the strangest and most insignificant things and is always surprising me with scraps of useful knowledge, passed me her straw hat and advised me to look through the gaps.

Alpha, they insist, is a scrap of ancient esoteric knowledge, a page torn from a guidebook bequeathed by alien astronauts.

It's a slow burn of ventriloquism, rumination and atmosphere, full of knowledge and little nods that will delight Highsmith fans; Dawson, like Virginia, is "releasing her scraps of information in drips".

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of knowledge and to educating the next generation so that it might continue the endeavour, but if this is completely undersupported, then it becomes a fight for scraps which you receive piecemeal.

Are they instances of knowledge?