Sentence examples for told about himself from inspiring English sources

The obit's major errors repeated lies that Gorky regularly told about himself.

St. Petersburgh, the Major arose and told about himself and Hoover pretty.

He was dropped from his high-school basketball team - that's the kind of story he told about himself.

"Welles was very interested in fiction, often including fictions he told about himself," said Ms. Bogart, who conceived and directed this latest in a number of avant-garde biographical dramas dealing with what she calls "big people".

"Your body is not saying, 'Ask me anything.' " In one motion he picked up his chair, brought it next to mine, faced me, held both my hands, looked me in the eye and said, "Is this better?" The stories he told about himself were clearly designed to make him look promiscuous and experienced.

A New York Times profile said that "his life story reads more like the script of an Errol Flynn adventure", though the stories he told about himself were often dubious.

David Rose, a carnie since boyhood, tells about himself and colleagues.

"The father used the child's sarcophagus to tell about himself," Ms. Udell said.

That's why the stories that Wilson tells about Marx and that Marx tells about himself seem to me to be, rather, stories about the essence of what movies are.

An article by Halsey Raines in the "Times" telling how Peter Viertel wrote the screen play of the Hemingway story "The Old Man and the Sea inspires the writer to tell about himself and his Hollywood agent, Mort Schrift.

If what he tells about himself in the poem is true (and there is no other source of information), he later lived obscurely in London as an unbeneficed cleric.