Sentence examples for spoke of drawing from inspiring English sources

He spoke of drawing inspiration from "Eric Cantona and even Nicolas Anelka scoring at the old Wembley" in this match, though his season has become a crusade to re-establish his reputation.

Southern California visitor attractions broke records on spending and attendance last year, and at the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter last month, the mayor of Los Angeles spoke of drawing in 50 million visitors a year by 2020.

What struck me most from her comments was when she spoke of drawing inspiration from the Women's National Championship teams at UA during her tenure as interim president; she stated that she is delighted to serve as a role model for them.

Both policy makers and practitioners spoke of drawing on the evidence in relation to the principles of successful interventions or best practice population health approaches and theories, in cases where sufficient evidence was not available.

She spoke of people being drawn to be of service after surviving a crisis.

Parents spoke of feeling particularly drawn to anecdotal stories involving real people, and spoke about finding other parents' stories more convincing than statistics and reassurances from scientists and politicians, perhaps because, unlike doctors, they were perceived to have no apparent conflicts of interest – only, quite naturally, the interests of their own children.

Those who have seen "The Guys" speak of being drawn inexorably to the play, of going because they needed a deeper understanding of their response to what happened.

I'm sick of ladies-what-lunch, with no worldly life experience to speak of or draw from, judging women who are different to them.

Only in a very limited sense can one speak of centres of drawing in the early and High Middle Ages; that is, the scriptoria of the monasteries of Corbie and Reims in France, as well as those of Canterbury and Winchester in England, and also a few places in southern Germany, where various strongly delineatory (graphically illustrated) styles of book illumination were cultivated.

Elizabeth Lim, currently a doctoral candidate at the Juilliard School, spoke of why she was drawn to Willa Cather's poem "Paradox," which is a reimagined take on the characters of Shakespeare's "Tempest".

Actor Danny Glover spoke of how performers were drawn to Jones at events.