Sentence examples for story smart from inspiring English sources

(The modest size of Greene's books makes them perfect for those classic little Penguin editions that fit on one's person).The man could tell a good story, smart and nervy.

It's too common a story: smart, low-income kid can't find their academic passion, so they drop out of school.

In "My Story," Smart writes, "I studied her hopefully, but her hard stance and cold eyes told me she was anything but a friend.

In "My Story," Smart tries to steer the reader away from seeing her experience as so bizarre that it warrants more curiosity than compassion.

First Presbyterian Church, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 7 at 3 p.m., lafollia.org HOUSTON Short Stories Smart, independently run blogs and Web sites have their place, but some readers still value having a tangible item to read and keep, a desire that has sparked a renaissance of zines.

At 19, he sold a story to "Smart Set" & soon decided to make writing life work.

"Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story," a smart and cheerful movie on VH1 tonight, dramatizes the wildly improbable ride of this manufactured band.

Gibbons can out-maneuver the champions, but both the story's smart pacing and the restrained unctuousness that Mr. Lindo brings to the role allow for depth and surprise not immediately apparent.

Some years back, New Scientist published a forgettable short story on "smart" flatpack furniture, but I will always remember how it was covered by James Meek, a former science correspondent at the Guardian.

Christie Hodgen's second novel offers a twist on the contemporary coming-of-age story: Her smart, mordant heroine, Mary Murphy, narrates in the second person rather than the first, piecing together the story of her life through a series of odes to five characters who shaped it, sometimes in the most accidental ways.

If you rely on the pamphlet published by the Mount Rushmore History Assn., you get most of Borglum's story: a smart, talented and stubborn boy, born in 1867 in Idaho to a big immigrant family from Denmark.