Sentence examples for secondhand account from inspiring English sources

Its black humor, designed to come off as stoic and heavy with Mitteleuropean irony, is flippant and sophomoric as only a secondhand account could be.

It's a secondhand account — Mr. Miller said he never was a member of the Angels New York Cityy chapter, which supposedly hatched the plot.

But Judge Beeler told the jury they could view that secondhand account only as a basis for evaluating Mr. Hubrecht's mental state, not as the truth about what happened.

But Straw published a secondhand account of Blix's comment, that the intelligence-based section of the dossier "did not exaggerate the facts, nor revert to rhetoric, probably both desirable for its credibility".

But O'Reilly insisted that he was unprepared to accept any secondhand account of what the former defence secretary may or may not have said, and would question Rumsfeld himself before deciding what to believe.

But the environment of Tucson — the light traffic on a Saturday morning, and the volume of taxi calls — perhaps played a role as well in what, according to Mr. Acosta's secondhand account, seemed at the time to be nothing more than a young man's calm ride to the grocery store.

There's no need to rely on secondhand accounts.

Important dramatic developments tend to occur off the page; in the aftermath, we are merely offered secondhand accounts.

The "chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers" that George Bisharat refers to was based on hearsay, secondhand accounts of foolish braggadocio.

They pass along secondhand accounts of clashes mostly on condition that their names will not appear in print.

Rather than relying on secondhand accounts, it's worth examining his own words, which run to two hundred and twenty-three pages.