Sentence examples for telling sentence from inspiring English sources

The telling sentence in NPR's report that US attorney general Eric Holder plans to step down once a successor is confirmed came near the end of the story.

As I began writing this essay, I picked up a book on wilderness survival by Laurence Gonzalez and found in it this telling sentence: "The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits".

The Guardian carried an AFP report on the mailings which contained a telling sentence: "Politkovskaya's family have said they were disappointed that the trial had not come any closer to tracking down the mastermind behind the murder".

The contradiction between the honest materialism of his earlier chapters, and the closet creationism of his chapter on humans, is all too evident in the following telling sentence: 'The birth of Adam, whether real or metaphorical, marked the insertion into an animal body of a post-biological soul that leaves no fossils and needs no genes'.

But a dedicated minority will give up their steering wheels only when someone pries their cold, etc., etc. PAGE A20 A TELLING SENTENCE The sentence to be given on Monday to Agron Abdullahu, one of six men arrested in what the authorities said was a plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey, could help determine what will happen to the other five, who have not been tried.

Programmes for his productions, as often as not, have no synopsis; the story is told, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, by the dancers on the stage.

He was told sentence would be passed after lunch, and Mr. Megrahi returned in three hours, looking stooped and wan, his toga hugged tightly around him.

Like his hero Maupassant, he captures life's messiness in a few telling sentences.

That is another way of telling the sentencing commission to bump up the recommended sentences for crimes like insider trading.

Say stuff like this: "The competition is to... ...... "Trade... ...... "And I will decline it's no joke!" Tell the sentence in more than one part.

To illustrate: the substitutivity principle for sentences tells us that sentences with the same truth value can be substituted for one another salva veritate.