Sentence examples for thin anecdote from inspiring English sources
I had been jarred by the end of dinner, sad for Steve, which surprised me, and sad for Sandy — especially Sandy, the way she lived with the rankling knowledge that she existed in her husband's affections as a thin anecdote, an illustration of his mediocre griefs.
I had been jarred by the end of dinner, sad for Steve, which surprised me, and sad for Sandy especially Sandy, the way she lived with the rankling knowledge that she existed in her husband's affections as a thin anecdote, an illustration of his mediocre griefs.
By focusing on the difficulties faced by foreign aid workers rather than the local people (gory injuries and thin anecdotes do not equate to characterisation), the true agenda of the film is all too apparent.
Some of these anecdotes feel thin, but things pick up when Aldersey-Williams describes characters who get deeper under our skin.
He offers the book as a kind of homemade present, whose "unorthodox methods" include some slightly imaginative reconstructions, at least one Internet anecdote, and a tendency to pad or wander from the subject when his material runs thin.
In most cases, the job of a ghostwriter is to produce a credible book from the thin air of a chef's mind and menu — to cajole and probe, to elicit ideas and anecdotes by any means necessary.
In the end, Pisani rediscovers her Bad Boyfriend idea, in a thin epilogue that again attempts to boil down what she has learned about Indonesia but soon turns into another anecdote.
This goes beyond anecdote.
An anecdote explains why.
