Sentence examples for were held forth from inspiring English sources

By Joshua B. Freeman The New Press (Hardcover, $35) From the 1920's through the 1970's, in literature, scholarship and reportage about work and industrial relations, automobile workers often were held forth as the archetypical proletarians...

What was it you were holding forth about?

The actress CATHY MORIARTY and the actor STEVE BUSCEMI were holding forth near the Monterey Jack cheese quesadillas.

And in two still smaller ensemble rooms, groups drawn from the New York Youth Symphony were holding forth: a brass quintet and a piano trio.

Though you couldn't easily count the players on a stage teeming with them, it seems safe to say that all 21 of the percussionists listed in the program (in addition to the timpanist) were holding forth, and the middle section, with its welter of meters and tempos, took 5 conductors (including Mr. Austin) working simultaneously to hold it together.

There, we were directed by the bartender-cum-ballerina-cum-marketing-major, Kathryn Chappell, to the right end of the bar, where Clemson's Democrats were holding forth, and actually self-identifying.

In "Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England," published in 1740, the theologian Jonathan Edwards wrote, "Comfort is to be held forth to sinners, under awakenings of conscience….

You might think that a local boy who made good on such a spectacular scale would be held forth as a lustrous example of what could be if one had the pluck and the luck.

Restoration of autonomy in non-autonomous patients was held forth as a goal for treatment, most notably in cases of psychosis.

Within moments surrogates are holding forth.

Soon the glasses were clinking and everyone was holding forth.