Sentence examples for works a telling from inspiring English sources

I read it for the first time this summer and now think it's among her greatest works, a telling reflection of her own attitudes, her relation to Paris, beauty, alcohol, intellectual circles, more alcohol, and the art of maintaining a household.

But the stories in the book are varied, united only by the fact that their protagonists work — or don't work, a telling detail in itself.

"That's the way it works," a competitor told The New York Times.

Something else is at work: a telling rejection of what a President Blair would say about the EU, and its foreign-policy goals.Oddly, Mr Blair is not even a confirmed candidate.

"Trust me, it works," a US "operative" told Newsweek magazine.

As an anesthesiologist went to work, a nurse told Santa that he seemed a little young for a knee replacement.

"The workers are being investigated because they've breached the way we work," a spokesperson told The Independent.

"I have been working a lot!" she told E! News on the red carpet.

"Treating yourself like a dog actually works," he told me.

A desk tells you to work a certain way, a chair tells you how to sit.

And any week of the year, Tate Modern has a pretty good showing of Picassos, and sometimes they're hung beside other works in a telling way.