Sentence examples for small anecdote from inspiring English sources

The author deftly manages the trick of illustrating grand sweep with small anecdote.

I start to mention that one small anecdote about his love life was revealed in a biography of the crime writer Patricia Highsmith.

This small anecdote should answer all of America's question as to how it was possible to get knives and boxcutters aboard the hijacked flights.

As far as British film is concerned, there is one really significance effect from the commercial view, and here I must permit myself a small anecdote.

If occasionally the history becomes a little convoluted and dense for the less well-informed or forgetful reader, there is always a small anecdote to lighten and illuminate.

This small anecdote reminds me of a track on the new album, "Just Me Before We Met", which sees a man reflecting on his life after finding old photos of himself, a naive boy before he became a man.

Small anecdotes about the family, who Schumacher always kept out of the public eye, gave rise to often colourful stories in the tabloids.

Tuesday night, Trump preferred to focus on small anecdotes rather than the big picture.

Idries Shah has made just the small anecdotes of Nasrudin even more beautiful... [he] not only has the capacity to exactly translate the parables, but even to beautify them, to make them more poignant, sharper".

The ideas about radio journalism that Glass taught them, they said, included having something at stake, having an element of surprise, having a larger story and smaller anecdotes that support it, and having moments of authentic emotion.

You can tell the story of your childhood by breaking it down into smaller anecdotes that illustrate your personality - your parents' reaction when you brought home a stray dog, the time you climbed out the window at school and ran away for 3 days, your friendly relationship with a homeless person living in the woods... get creative.