Sentence examples for writes of growing from inspiring English sources

Martin Short, in his lovely recent memoir, writes of growing up a Sinatra fanatic and imitator in Hamilton, Ontario, a few short years before I did the same in Montreal.

In his text, van Agtmael writes of growing up in a mostly white, upper-middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C., where he was "surrounded by people who benefited from the American dream," and acknowledges that he "didn't particularly question it".

Christopher Isherwood writes of growing up in the 1920s in England after World War I: "I was obsessed by a complex of terrors and longings connected with the idea 'war.' 'War,' in this purely neurotic sense, meant 'the test.' The test of your courage, your maturity.

He writes of:growing excitement in the US and Europe at the idea that we may have discovered a large part of the answer to one of the most vexatious problems in foreign and economic policy – energy securityBig shale gas reserves in a country like Poland are certainly better than no gas reserves.

In her excellent book Inventing Wonderland, the critic Jackie Wullschlager writes of grown men cheering as Peter Pan declares: "I want always to be a little boy and always have fun".

Mr. Perry wrote of growing up in Paint Creek in his paean to the Boy Scouts, "On My Honor".

Brooks wrote of growing up in the Bible Belt, where people "prayed in the parlor and practiced incest in the barn".

This is the first of many funny digressions in Party Animals, which is ostensibly a briskly written memoir of growing up among communists.

On email, Mark Paul Magrs Strange Boyy, a lovingly written account of growing up and being different, of divided and extended families, with some great characters like Big Nana and Little Nana and the mum's dozy Australian boyfriend.

Justice O'Connor's background may have helped shape her thinking: she has written fondly of growing up on the Lazy B ranch in the high desert wilderness in Arizona and New Mexico.

Catherine A. Powers of The Boston Globe characterized the book as a "moving, superbly written account of growing up in the midst of... cruel madness".