Sentences with phrase «fond of recounting»

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, was fond of recounting a children's story she'd been told on a visit to Japan.

Partisans of the new scientism are fond of recounting the «Sokal hoax» — physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper heavy on jargon but full of false and meaningless statements to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text, which accepted and published it without quibble — but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal.

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A few people who have had personal encounters with the deceased military man have tried to recount fond memories of him and what they know about him.

In one of his first public addresses made at the AAAS 2015 Forum on Science & Technology Policy, he recounted a fond memory about how the first tie he ever bought was for his STPF fellowship.

Those of you who have played The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker before should prepare for a dose of fond memories courtesy of the latest trailer, which recounts the GameCube classic's story in pure HD glory.