Sentence examples for telling historical from inspiring English sources

But the argument does carry a telling historical pedigree.

But a sudden breakthrough could pose some tricky questions.Indeed, there is a telling historical precedent.

Instead he details the often painful, occasionally triumphant, sometimes unbearable, always deeply human narratives with care and empathy, and from time to time illuminates them with the urgent politics and telling historical contexts in which they exist.

These events are telling historical markers in the background of an exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art, near Lincoln Center, addressing a topic that was not explored much — or even widely thought to exist — until about 20 years ago: Jewish participation in the Spanish visual arts in the two centuries prior to the expulsion.

Buried in all this invention there is a small but telling historical point -- that the Britain of the real King Arthur was, far from being a place of civilized courts like Camelot, a primitive backwater, for a while an outpost of Rome and then clawed over by warring tribes.

Clearly written and brimming with telling historical details and sharp insights, The Fierce Urgency of Now is essential reading not only for those who want to understand the Great Society but for everyone concerned with how it might be preserved or expanded.

Sometimes they told historical stories, sometimes just gossip from the next parish.

He laughs again: "It tells historical, political, personal stories in what is essentially a very, very posh soap opera".

But noble and brave they all are, and by the end, Paolo with his bicycle is only one of many heroes in this dramatically told historical novel.

Other notable works were Herr Arnes Penningar (1904), a tersely but powerfully told historical tale; and Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, 2 vol. (1906 07; The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Further Adventures of Nils), a geography reader for children.

His skill lies in weaving the experiences of the fictional Karl and his family into accurately re-told historical events—a burial at sea, a flawed mutiny, an attempted suicide all featuring true-life characters.