Sentence examples for stirring account from inspiring English sources

Hochschild's stirring account concentrates on the appalling losses in the ranks and on the extraordinary courage of the dissenters.

He gave a pulsing, sensitive and crisp performance, capped by a stirring account of the final march.

The novel's conscience is an official campaign chronicler for the invaders worried about how to confect a suitably stirring account from the failure and ugliness he witnesses.

In this novel, the episode from The Odyssey where Odysseus is stranded on Circe's island becomes, in Miller's retelling from Circe's perspective, a stirring account of feminine empowerment and hard-won agency.

I don't look for the latest on Iran from the magazine that published a weekly Courtney Weaver column ("Is that, like, a trend?") or that stirring account of a reporter who wasn't afraid to lick his subject's doorknobs.

Cusack, dressed in the long burgundy gown and laurel wreath of the rhapsode, or storyteller, gives a stirring account of war and bloodshed, as the drums of the Apprentice Boys sound in the background: a slightly uneasy conflation of past and present.

In stirring accounts of castles, moors, and local feuds and massacres, we are informed that "they daggered the piper, and throwed him in a hole," and told of "womens bewailing over the deprivation of their correlative husbands".

The sentiment is only partly undercut by the fact that Tonio -- better known as Antoine de Saint-Exup? (1900-44), the French author of the well-known fable "The Little Prince" and of stirring accounts of his life as a pilot -- can barely seem to spend five minutes with his wife before heading outward himself, to Patagonia or the Sahara desert or Manhattan.

Italo Calvino and Carlo Cassola left stirring accounts of the Resistance experience, Calvino in Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (1947; The Path to the Nest of Spiders) and Cassola in Il taglio del bosco (1959; "Timber Cutting") and La ragazza di Bube (1960; Bubo's Girl).

And he was fascinated not only by classical texts but by the travel literature that became a minor publishing industry in his era, from Hakluyt's stirring accounts of naval derring-do to eyewitness reports of a Bermudan shipwreck.

IT is one of the most stirring accounts of heroism to emerge from 9/11: a fighter pilot from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington returns from a training mission, finds out that a plane, United Airlines Flight 93, has been hijacked and is heading for Washington, then takes off without refueling and low on ammunition in pursuit.