Sentence examples for the use of the first from inspiring English sources

And, of them, the use of the first person is among the most disarming.

"The first novelty is the use of the first person," Father Vicinio Albanesi wrote in the Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana.

He indicates participation in the Pauline mission by the use of the first person in the "we" sections of Acts.

Maskelyne and his assistant, Charles Green, were to make the ship-board observations and calculations necessary for the use of the first two methods.

In Philadelphia, while working on the Eniac, she dropped the use of the first name Betty, which she never liked, her son said.

Relinquishing craving to arrive at detachment is one of Buddhism's core tenets as set out in the Four Noble Truths; I wanted to be so noble that I inspired the use of the first person plural.

However, the use of the first-person unreliable narrator also allows Lisa Williamson to conceal some major surprises.

We're never given much information about the students themselves, and the use of the first-person plural to narrate the story is unusual.

The use of the first-person narrator in comics is a method Spiegelman popularised, though he credits its development to a fellow cartoonist, Justin Green.

The use of the first-person-possessive determiner brings to mind the pervasive superstition that everyone has a novel "in them," some inner reserve of pure creative potential awaiting realization and recognition.

But his true accomplishment was his assertion of an independent voice and the use of the first-person "I"; before Qu, prose and poetry was anonymous, and invariably served to acclaim the authority of the state.