Sentence examples for surrender story from inspiring English sources

AP's Curley called Kennedy's dismissal "a great, great tragedy" and hailed him and the desk editors who put the surrender story on the wire for upholding the highest principles of journalism.

Surrender your story to their re-working of it, rather than correcting them, and they will re-tell it with passion and conviction.

Dawn isn't the only thing that gets broken in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I," the latest and best of the movies about a girl, her vampire and their impossible, ridiculously appealing — yes, I surrendered — love story.

Entering into his mind, coldly observing the obsequiousness of life at his court, and balancing this against the death of an ordinary soldier or Hadji Murad's surrender, give the story the aura of a compass needle as it seeks to pin-point Russia with its despotic ruler and its long-suffering population.

Gaddafi asks, "Is death a man, and thus to be fought, or a woman to whose tender embrace we must surrender?" In the story, Gaddafi journeys into the desert to flee the mob of Tripoli: a prophecy that would come to life in 2011, when the tide of civil war turned against him and he was forced to gather his bodyguards and drive out to an ending that history had ordained.

For him, it meant finding a way to manipulate readers into caring about his criminal characters and their plight, and surrendering to the story.

Because "Revolutionary Road" became the decade's great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender, Yates's stories are often likened to John Cheever's, but they are closer to J. F. Powers's: the same richly restrained prose, luxuriously lined but plain to the touch; the same anxious comedy; the same very cold, appraising eye; and the same superb ear for the foolish histrionics of speech.

Svetlana Alexievich, whose book Voices From Chernobyl won the Nobel prize in literature, describes how it took hours and hours of interview time before Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the woman whose husband, the fireman, was buried like a matryoshka doll, surrendered her true story.

Surrendering your vivid story in which we can play a meaningful role can probably spread it farther, faster and in more directions than you can on your own.

A number of witnesses say that he raised his hands to surrender; the officer's story, conveyed through associates, is that, after Brown turned, he began running at Wilson.

In that collection, Keegan, who has often been compared favourably, if lazily, – lazily – with the late John McGahern, used an image from his memoir as a jumping-off point for a story called "Surrender".