Sentence examples for she drew upon from inspiring English sources

So she drew upon her penchant for the upbeat.

Reading the Harry Potter books with her family, she drew upon the bags that Harry and friends carried at Hogwarts.

She drew upon her own life in the creation of lesbian journalist Lindsay Gordon as her central character.

The letters also convey Lee's amused impatience with her home town, whose sometimes stifling contours she drew upon to describe Maycomb, the setting for "Mockingbird".

Steeped in devotional literature, she drew upon its language and cadences to record (and to dissemble) her solitary effort to accept that death is absolute.

In 1918 she drew upon an experimental plan she had developed for the high school in Dalton, Mass., and began implementing it on a contractual basis with students in her New York school.

"She draws upon a rich knowledge of diverse literatures... and has lost none of her astute wit," Robert Kuttner wrote here in 2000.

This is particularly odd when so few of the writers she draws upon (Sontag, Woolf, Orbach, Foucault) can be categorised as entirely heterosexual.

In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.

But for my mother, who has always been in action to take care of me but often feels powerless against my mysterious disease, the prescription she draws upon is often a remedy from the kitchen.

To understand the human-dog bond and Pransky's particular talents, she draws upon Schopenhauer on lovingkindness, Descartes on the separation between mind and body, Aristotle on self-restraint and Darwin on animal emotions.