Sentence examples for she purported from inspiring English sources

Unlike Ms. Brown, she writes, Friedan, who attended Smith College, was simply "not one of the women she purported to speak for".

She hosted "Saturday Night Live," appeared again on the cover of Sports Illustrated (this time, the Swimsuit Issue), and did some commercial work, including a rather incoherent ad for Reebok in which she purported to explain that she was "fine not being perfect".

She purported to be the "Spirit of Beauty" and the "Goddess of Love"; in this capacity, she claimed complete knowledge of truth and the ability to heal.

Of course she was going to concede, and concede gracefully; but first, to borrow a line from a play about the kind of person she purported to represent, "Attention must be paid".

She purports to be leaving for China.

However by reinforcing the disaster narrative, Campbell, amongst others, is disenfranchising those she purports to help.

The phenomenon of the dummy star, who has a hard time replicating onstage what he or she purports to do on record, is not unheard of.

My problem with these photographs is that Ms. Essaydi, by retaining the basic compositions, gestures and general style of dress of the original paintings, often leaves her women stuck in the same Orientalist fantasy that she purports to critique.

So, while Sam writes her biography, Clare is writing a memoir — called "Absolution," of course — in which she purports to reconstruct the final days of her lost daughter, Laura.

To the Editor: Couldn't you have assigned what could have been a very informative story to a writer who is knowledgeable and has respect for what she purports to be investigating?

She purports to give an account of ability that is both compatible with determinism and vindicates enough of our ordinary judgments about ability to play that role; it is, as it were, the 'best deserver' for the 'ability role' in a deterministic world.