Sentence examples for thread of connections from inspiring English sources

Mr. Salpeter unspooled a thread of connections that led from Mr. Steuerman to one of his associates, Joseph Creedon, then to a half dozen witnesses who gave sworn depositions that Mr. Creedon had told them that he and another man had killed the Tankleffs.

Behind my eagerness to take on the Tatro estate, there was also a thread of connection that reached back several generations.

Under these extreme conditions, it will not be surprising if the copy starts to lose the thread of connection to readers, not unlike the clothes.

When a friend died, once the thread of connection with her preoccupations and passions was severed, her files turned into a pile of old papers.

The communal aspect and extraordinary preparation time (of up to an entire year) create a powerful thread of connection among those who participate.

Its elegiac power is greatly enhanced by the sense that it is always dealing with history, with contradictory versions of events, with inexplicable or unknowable things whose accessibility, even to the imagination, is fading and in danger of being lost forever but to which the reader is being given a thread of connection.

Also, the items can document early literacy development along a continuum that has a thread of connection with early literacy acquisition theories.

He only obtained a slight sense of it later that evening when Scott Franklin, the well to do, living binary of geeky black-framed glasses, short hair and handsomeness who had loaned Billy the Top Siders informed him about the bloodline, establishing for Billy a translucent thread of connection between he and the Harding girl by the weave of he and her father's rather simple conversation.

Throughout there is a subtle recurrence and interplay of character; threads of connection, sometimes slight, sometimes strong; links of family or neighborhood or professional association or sexual involvement.

"Municipal town and rural parish gradually make fresh threads of connection," Eliot observes, showing how these work as the railways are installed, or elections take place.

Not every dish at Tertulia will have roots in Asturias; many of them, though, are likely to have subtle threads of connection to the chef's array of hero foods.