Sentence examples for situating him from inspiring English sources

But she implicitly answers their most common complaint — that Spitzer is nothing more than a publicity-crazed partisan demagogue — by situating him within a tradition that can be traced back a hundred years to Theodore Roosevelt and Louis D. Brandeis.

But Robert J. Norrell, in his remarkable new biography, "Up From History," gets around this problem the old-fashioned way: by scrupulously excavating the facts of his subject's life and then carefully situating him in his own era.

Madagascar had been a French colony for less than a decade when Rabearivelo was born, situating him among the first generation of Malagasy to grow up under the colonial system.

That situated him in, to put it mildly, a target-rich environment.

Literary history will situate him among the "postcolonial" writers, connoisseurs of ancient oppression.

Guardian writer John Crace disagreed in this Shortcuts piece, which situates him firmly in the "leave my memories alone!" camp.

Every page is informed by an acute sense of his multiple identities, which situated him at once within and apart from the worlds he inhabited.

One should situate him in the political and intellectual setting of 20th-century Latin American anti-colonialism rather than seeing him through the eyes of the 21st century.

Chamberlain had one of those 100-pitch, two-hit, four-inning performances that situate him exactly halfway between Nolan Ryan and Steve Dalkowski.

Each note choice, inflection and bodily movement situated him within a tradition of a people whose songs were precious cultural capital and even life itself.

Mr. Brubeck's very personal musical language situated him far from the Bud Powell school of bebop rhythm and harmony; he relied more on chords, lots and lots of them, than on sizzling, hornlike right-hand lines.