Sentence examples for what I retained from inspiring English sources

Plath and I were alike, I was sure, yet what I retained from The Bell Jar was mostly a sense of the narrator's irrepressible effervescence.

Here is what I retained: there were houses, entire apartment houses, on fire on either side of the embankment; there were flames coming out of the windows of the upper stories, and glimpses of dark gorgelike streets and courtyards with trees.

Lizza's piece quotes the President telling David Maraniss, in his new biography, "What I retained in my politics is a sense that the only way I could have a sturdy sense of identity of who I was depended on digging beneath the surface differences of people.

In "Barack Obama: The Story," by David Maraniss, Obama says, "What I retained in my politics is a sense that the only way I could have a sturdy sense of identity of who I was depended on digging beneath the surface differences of people.

"There is no doubt that what I retained in my politics is a sense that the only way I could have a sturdy sense of identity of who I was depended on digging beneath the surface differences of people," Obama said during an interview on 10 November 2011.

It's what I retain of that experience.

As I've admitted previously, I've not much of a memory for books, no matter how much I enjoy them, so this is what I retain of James: very disturbing small children, in a story wrapped within a story that I loved (The Turn of the Screw).

It's telling that what I have retained involves describing exactly how I prefer my margaritas.

But what I do retain from that period is a powerful sense that we Catholics were finally and completely coming into our own as Americans and that a last barrier to acceptance was about to fall.

"I want to devalue art to the point where it has no economic value at all, just so we can see what it retains".

To live well is to continue to possess the ability to converse, to read, to retain what I learn and to coherently reflect and understand.