Sentence examples for writing upon from inspiring English sources

McCourt taught English for 30 years in four high schools in New York before turning to writing upon his retirement.

It's a typical Berio strategy of writing upon writing, building up layer upon layer of meanings, and refusing the idea that a single piece can exhaust the possibilities of its musical material.

While the Novanglian "philosophers" relied on the ideas of Locke in their experiment, believing they were writing upon the boy's "tabula rasa," the slaveholders and their racism worked in the opposite way, by erasing Africans to a blankness so that, in an important moment of self-recognition, our hero chooses his own last name and henceforth is known as Octavian Nothing.

Require member firms to commit in writing, upon joining VCA, to operating their virtual commodity markets in compliance with Sound Practices, described below; and provide a sanctions based accountability program to compel ongoing member compliance.

Zelda read the unfinished manuscript of the novel Scott was writing upon his death, The Love of the Last Tycoon.

As I sit on this chair, writing upon this desk, these problems are getting better, bit by bit.

KOREA IS A "difficult country to write upon", discovered Isabella Bird Bishop, a British travel writer*, after four visits to the country in the 1890s.

Jia's surviving writings mention an earlier fu he wrote upon his exile to Changsha which he modeled upon Qu Yuan's "Encountering Sorrow" (Li Sao), but it has not survived to the present.

"She wrote upon it: Return to sender, address unknown".

They write upon our faces  Until the pen strikes bone.

("If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old").