Sentence examples for swofford's from inspiring English sources

Well-worn memoir material, this, but it's saved from tedium by Swofford's brisk storytelling, deadpan humor, and appealing swagger.

"Jarhead" was a chronicle of Mr. Swofford's time as a Marine during the first Gulf War.

Indeed, no crossroad in Swofford's journey fails to inspire a sexual detour.

Swofford's ability to create character is vastly inferior to his capacity to describe reality as he himself experienced it.

In the hope of finding something more constructive to say, I decided to read Swofford's first book, the memoir "Jarhead".

Beebe is facing a potential crisis for the second straight year, and the reverberations could be felt in Swofford's and Marinatto's conferences.

Swofford said Miami's president, Donna E. Shalala, and Boston College's president, the Rev. William P. Leahy, also participated in the call.

Good news for Swofford and the A.C.C.: There's always basketball season.

Instead, there's something canned about this compulsive record, and Swofford seems at least in part to know it.

This is a fair sample of Anthony Swofford's prose in his first novel, "Exit A," prose that befits a Harlequin romance novel more than functioning as (to quote the publicity office again) "confirmation of Swofford as a major literary talent".

By Anthony Swofford.