Sentence examples for sort of snapshot from inspiring English sources

Each of the stories is offered as a sort of snapshot whose position in the bigger picture only emerges slowly.Several of them follow Vic, a policeman's son, from his early childhood to a near-suicidal midlife crisis.

The result, which cost $11.3 million and which the M.T.A. will officially unveil in a ceremony today, is a sort of snapshot pageant of all life as we know it, from the image of the Big Bang that swirls in front of the token booth near the 81st Street entrance to the bronze cast of Tyrannosaurus rex that towers over the downtown platform to the tiny Jesus lizard crawling up the wall.

I started at Hidden Sydney, a sort-of immersive snapshot of the Kings Cross of old.

To hear Myers tell it, Hinoki & the Bird serves as a sort of culinary snapshot of Los Angeles itself, a city where immigrants from Japan, southeast Asia and the Middle East coexist with locavores, expense-account epicures and health-nut hippies.

Weiner says of Fielding's novel, "I can see that book being taught, fifty years from now, as some sort of psychological snapshot of a moment: what it was like to be female in Britain at that moment, what were the pressures and what were the expectations".

The story is told in discrete scenes, sort of like snapshots in time.

Then, Razor & Tie said, "But we also want to have just a collection of the last fifteen years for people who want to introduce their girlfriends and boyfriends to your music and want that sort of one-off snapshot of the artist to have".

The study, the first of its kind by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, presents a series of snapshots, sort of a flipbook, of earning and spending in the city compared with the rest of the nation from 1901 to 2003.

Um Omar, who speaks of the hijab as a sort of refuge, shows Steavenson snapshots of herself from the seventies in short dresses, and for a Western woman it's hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment at all the things — clothes being the least of it, really — that she has since lost.

This list provides a snapshot of what sort of volunteer profiles are requested fairly frequently.

Instead, I go to Nottingham for the day to get a snapshot of the sort of work the army does.