Sentence examples for trufan from inspiring English sources
noun
A very active and dedicated fan, particularly of science fiction.
The auditions are watched by the judges from behind a two-way mirror, with the whole thing overseen by Simon Cowell in the US, like Ed Harris in The Truman Show.
In the past weeks, Warsaw has been abuzz with lavish events such as the Wrocław Global Forum, organized by the Atlantic Council, where the likes of US Senator John McCain, Adam Michnik and, of course, Radek Sikorski were honored by freedom awards.Critics say that the recent to-do around democracy promotion resembles "The Truman Show", which, much like the motion picture, revolves around one man.
HARRY Truman famously asked to be sent a one-armed economist, having tired of exponents of the dismal science proclaiming "On the one hand, this" and "On the other hand, that".
Truman granted recognition within hours.Weizmann's words were only partly true.
IN 1951, when President Truman ordered the building of Quonset huts in the middle of the Nevada desert, few imagined that the flimsy structures would eventually outlast the site's reason for existence: the test-detonation of nuclear weapons.
They didn't fall under the Truman-era health-insurance reform, the employer tax exemption, under which the government effectively pays about a third of the cost of employees' insurance (while employers bury even more in their own contribution so that employees don't really have a sense of how much they're paying).
It is a close chemical cousin of a substance that was well-loved by some of the world's most famous musicians, and, it's rumoured, by John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Truman Capote – but was banned decades ago.
The Kennedys, the Eisenhowers, Truman Capote, Somerset Maugham and "nearly every prominent royal or heiress in Europe"; they all came to dinner chez Jim when they graced Bangkok.Perhaps Thompson was subject to a contract killing by business rivals in Bangkok.
Other American writers had fled their provincial roots: Tennessee Williams left Mississippi for New York; Truman Capote left Louisiana for Connecticut and, ultimately, Manhattan.
Ms Wilkerson's intimacy with members of these families is as close as Truman Capote's with his characters in "In Cold Blood".
