Sentence examples for telling sentences from inspiring English sources

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

In one of the most telling sentences he stressed that "action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing".

It is all very well to talk about new legislation or ever more elaborate procedures, but no one seems to remember one of the more telling sentences in Lord Laming's inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié, which reported in 2003.

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.

Again, subjects were told sentences in both quiet and noisy situations and were asked to repeat them.

N. Siddharth, Barbu, A., and Siskind, J. Mark, "Seeing what you're told, sentence guided activity recognition in video", Appeared at CVPR.

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.

The court was told sentencing would not happen before Friday as the issue of the potential danger Gildea may pose had to be assessed.

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".

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