Sentence examples for setting it all down from inspiring English sources
Thanks to his reckless immersion in the war at one of its craziest moments – working as a magazine journalist during the Tet offensive of 1967 and its aftermath – he catches the mix of humour, madness and drugs, setting it all down on the page with a rare combination of precision and compassion so that, as the reader, you think: I was there.
Phillip Woodruff's two volumes The Men Who Ruled India3 set it all down in a compelling narrative.
Auletta has talked to everyone, has read everything and has set it all down, but he leaves it to the reader to make sense of a mountain of jumbled facts and impressions.
Then there is Cassandra's developing sense of herself as a writer – at one point when Rose is upset, she writes, "I really ought to have gone over and comforted her, but I wanted to set it all down here.
Jones spent 10 years creating nearly all of his Pulitzer-winning, antebellum-era novel, "The Known World," in his head, until he finally set it all down on paper in a three-month rush in 2001 after being laid off from his job at a tax publication.
His sense of the legal issues is sure and sophisticated". "Auletta has talked to everyone, has read everything and has set it all down, but he leaves it to the reader to make sense of a mountain of jumbled facts and impressions". "A rich account of modern medicine, scientific research and one man's magnificently obsessive quest for truth..
Who of us is really so invested in this idea of following Jesus that we'd set it all down and walk away if we had to?
At one point, she lifted the lid on the pan of potatoes, used it to rake the potatoes and set it back down on the pan, all without looking.
He set it down on the credenza.
