Sentence examples for she purports from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

To Ms. Smith, anyone who supports Israel must be someone with "senseless devotion". She purports to present an objective history of the Middle East problem and proposes to solve it in a surprisingly simple way.

She also purports she was "prohibited from leaving the bedroom of the child she was supervising while the child was sleeping" unless a parent was in the room or until the other nanny arrived.

But questions about Ms. Dolezal, if not suspicion that she was not exactly everything she purported to be, were never far away either.

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

For instance, in the wake of white nationalist violence in Charlottesville in August, in which one counter-protester was killed, she purported to take issue with the president's conduct.

SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: You have an amazing story in the book of someone who took care of you when you were a child who was not at all what she purported to be either.