Sentence examples for we encountered him from inspiring English sources

This man was unflagged in our community, and we encountered him.

Before Ed's diagnosis, we encountered him as a full and complex character—"open-minded," "polite," someone who "soaked up whatever you gave him" but is also "committed to his own pointless suffering".

Love is nothing if not irrational – why should a computer working from a check list of stilted questions we've answered about ourselves be any use at all? Especially when Cupid so often teaches us that we had no idea what we wanted until we encountered him or her.

Soon after, we encounter him as an old man, performing tricks with boomerangs for tourists.

This person is called "Damon", and we encounter him, like a god of ancient Egypt, in different forms.

Yet Hollinghurst also prosecutes Bryant in this novel: by the time we encounter him in the nineteen-eighties, he is a minor literary schemer, relentless, intrusive, and duplicitous.

It is only in his memories that the narrator has friends and a close-knit family he can rely on, and even within his memories those relationships start to fall away as the state of war throws up divisions and absences and speechlessness – so that when we encounter him in the present, his closest intimacies seem to be with the corpses in the field.

We encounter him on a Nubian island.

Beard is already dead when we encounter him in the first Hotline Miami, though.

We encounter him first as a thief -- someone who scavenges metal illegally -- and he transitions into a logical next step: a news cameraman.

But queer Potter fans ― all Potter fans, in fact ― need a Dumbledore who is wholly himself at whatever point in his journey we encounter him.