Sentence examples for telling snapshot from inspiring English sources

The journey offers a telling snapshot of contemporary Nigeria.

Still, the survey provides a telling snapshot of the variety of items the government is selling online.

Now, more than eight years later, the Lower Ninth – the city's worst-hit ward, lying below sea level – offers a telling snapshot of New Orleans's recovery efforts.

Since they also include details on Freddie's delinquent mortgages, the company's sales of foreclosed properties and losses on those sales, the results provide a telling snapshot of the current state of the housing market.

Both lists promoted the odd author who scarcely wrote another word (Ursula Bentley, Adam Lively); but, on the whole, the selections provided a telling snapshot of talent as it surfaced.

Boston's Paul Pierce, who was invited to the national team tryouts when Iverson was not, led the Celtics to a 104-101 victofferingering a telling snapshot of two franchise players competing in separate but similar dramas.

But experts provided telling snapshots of maritime activity to legislators and other officials from Arctic countries at an international conference last week in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Packing a world tour into an hour and a quarter, the ensemble offered Baroque music from six countries in small, telling snapshots.

Both mascot Willie, a lion wearing a Union Jack, and the song were huge successes, and endure to this day as telling snapshots of a happier time for England fans.

In mapping Jerry's world, a small patch of Long Island somewhere between Cheever country and Gatsby's vanished green Eden, Mr. Lee gives us telling snapshots of the middle class and how one man comes to terms with "the plain stupid luck of your draw in a macrocosm rigged with absolutely nothing particular about you in mind".

Richard A. Berk, professor of criminology and statistics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told us, "Snapshots are not trends.