Sentence examples for which served him from inspiring English sources

Here he learned hard truths and made contacts and friendships which served him for the rest of his life.

De Haven's penchant for grotesquerie, which served him well in the gouty, pustulant Old New York realms of his earlier novels, merely seems curdled and gratuitous here.

Since those Froch defeats, Groves has failed to impress in the ring despite two comeback victories, and may need to return to the tactical, defensive style which served him so well earlier in his career.

Kaunda acquired knowledge of the colonial government as well as political skills, both of which served him well when later that year he joined the African National Congress (ANC), the first major anticolonial organization in Northern Rhodesia.

His palette was generally on the low-key side, which served him well in the quiet, brooding landscapes -- particularly of Manhattan's upper reaches, like Inwood and the Harlem River -- that were his strength.

Alas for Mr. Spitzer, his shiv-in-the-kidney style, which served him so well in facing down skittish bankers and mutual fund executives, met its match in Albany.

The band is also a vehicle for his yelping vocals and needling, surrealistic lyrics, neither of which serve him well.

William radiates confidence and control, which serve him well in his daytime role as an executive at a local corporation.

Another asset: he has an eagle's eye for speck-size objects, which serves him even when a jeweler's magnifying eyepiece does not.

Affixed to his outer thigh is this ridiculous but impressive sawed-off 1892 Winchester, which serves him well in taming the lawless.

There is also about him a kind of amused detachment from the rarefied world he inhabits — which serves him well as a courtier, whether to S. I. Newhouse, Mr. Balazs or Mr. Coppola.