Sentence examples for telling choice from inspiring English sources

It was a telling choice of words — an utterance so evocative of gallant sacrifice and heroic last stands, yet made in connection with a mere business issue.

His most telling choice of words, for me, is a bit of Shakespeare that he incorporated into a mural at a library in Miami: "Words without thoughts never to Heaven go".

Minus the context Connelly provides in his introduction, particularly his apt and telling choice of the word "communion," with all the spiritual symbolism it implies, to describe a homicide detective's feelings of obligation to murder victims, we could be reading a detail of an overworked cop who hates to do paperwork, or has taken to chewing his glasses to kick a nicotine habit.

The word "defunct" is a telling choice for a former student at the Cambridge Latin School, given the word's roots in the idea of having "ceased to function," a precise description of the end of Buffalo Bill's career as a showman.

It's a telling choice of words -- "would like to think" -- a tacit admission that this reading has more to do with the reviewer preferring to avoid wearisome arguments about women's rights than with Houellebecq's successful execution of a sharp satire.

The décor of an executive's office, like the suit he selects each morning, is a telling choice.

That's a telling choice: To come up with the name of a sufficiently significant Sephardic poet, Netanyahu had to go back almost a millennium.

It was a telling choice that in the current season, dominated by big-name soloists, room was made last Saturday for the orchestra's former concertmaster, the elegant violinist Maria Larionoff, in Peteris Vasks's 1998 concerto, "Distant Light".

WASHINGTON — As the nation is on the verge of inaugurating its first black president, the Republican Party is facing a telling choice: whether to elect its first black chairman.

When I'm not told, choice is taken from me.

Sting told a choice anecdote near the close of his concert at the Public Theater on Wednesday night, reaching back to his boyhood in an English shipbuilding town.