Sentence examples for singular autobiography from inspiring English sources

But she was also a wonderful writer, and this week, Persephone republishes her singular autobiography Long Live Great Bardfield, a book she began while recovering from a mastectomy early in 1942, and completed the next year, by which time she was a widow (Ravilious, a war artist, was reported missing in September 1942, his aircraft having been lost off Iceland; she died in 1951).

It was a muted end for Mr. Gray, whose singular talent was closely observed autobiography, performed in a style that alternated between conspiratorial whispers and antic screams as he roamed through topics large and small.

His films, which amount to a singular courageous act of emotional autobiography, explore ancient humiliations; his gift lies in his access to dark feelings and in his ability to call them out into the open, where they can be seen and acknowledged and finally understood.

Ironically, as some science studies scholars have suggested, it is gender clinicians and sexologists themselves who have set the scene for trans women denying anything other than feminine essence autobiographies by demanding singular sorts of Western heteronormative stories out of MTFs seeking SRS (Stone, 1991; see also Meyerowitz, 2002).

British readers will wonder how an autobiography that all but dispenses with the first person singular can be so egoistic.

People are nosy, prurient and judgmental (Amis himself must be fed up to the back teeth with it) and you don't have to go very far to discover how widespread the biographical fallacy is – ie the conviction that the first-person singular always refers to the author and that all writing is autobiography.

When speaking of her use of autobiography, Angelou acknowledges that she has followed the slave narrative tradition of "speaking in the first-person singular talking about the first-person plural, always saying I meaning 'we'".

In a 1983 interview with literature critic Claudia Tate, Angelou calls her books autobiographies, and later acknowledges that she follows the slave narrative tradition of "speaking in the first-person singular talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I' meaning 'we'".

In his autobiography he wrote wistfully of weapons-training among the orange groves outside Tel Aviv, of his night-time forays disguised in rabbinical black, of "singular comradeship" and of the assassinations he ordered.

Singular "therapist," plural "their," singular "her".

"Grant's nominations had the singular effect of making the hearer ashamed, not so much of Grant, as of himself," he writes in his great third-person autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams".