Sentence examples for suddenly summoned from inspiring English sources

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Cox suddenly summoned Schultz as if he needed a closer in the ninth inning.

Although Godard had intended to make the film near Mailer's house in Provincetown, he suddenly summoned Norman and Kate Mailer to Switzerland.

He was one of a few journalists suddenly summoned to the Purple One's Paisley Park studio complex to interview the eccentric musician.

A group of his attendants, chasing a stag through the woods, were suddenly summoned by the howls of a hunting dog.

"Suddenly summoned to witness some thing great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness," wrote John Updike ten years ago in these pages.

Morning: A nurse suddenly summons us to the neonatal intensive-care unit.

and suddenly finds himself summoned to divulge the price of a dish of six chicken wings.

Then, suddenly, Stone is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of Hollywood's biggest movie star, Vance Calder.

She describes Cee watching four barnyard swallows gather on the lawn outside her window, "politely equidistant from one another," peck-searching through blades of drying grass, then all four, suddenly "as if summoned," flying up to a pecan tree.

Suddenly, in a strong voice, he summoned a waiter: "Bring me a glass of champagne, please.