Sentence examples for two telling details from inspiring English sources

Shepard doesn't pick one or two "telling details"; he propels the reader through whole bravura paragraphs of them.

Fifty meaningless details become one telling detail, that sort of thing.

How badly the firms were communicating by the weekend is revealed by one telling detail I have picked up.

For Mr. Gharani's file, the two serial informers provided telling details.

Raj suggested at one point that the telling details of Gigondas were not to be found in the aromas and flavors, but in the structure and high alcohol.

One telling detail is the distinctive shape of the radiator grille, introduced by BMW in 1933.

One telling detail is that the most memorable event of the past five years (or 18 hours of telecast time) is a moment that the motion picture academy, given its druthers, would rather not have had and couldn't plan for anyway: John Travolta's mangling of Idina Menzel's  name.

The immediate suspect was Darryl's stepfather, Michael Rubenstein, who, according to the district attorney, appeared to know telling details about the three deaths.

Kerrey clearly knows the conventions of war stories, and is able, even three decades later, to recall small, telling details. "We came to the canal and hid in the buffalo grass in a semicircle facing outward for security," he writes, describing the end of the raid.

No one recalls telling details.

Three thousand years, packed with telling detail, in the life of the holy city.