Sentences with phrase «often recount»

My two sons, now 46 and 51, often recount for others their memories of Mom «dragging» them to the fabric store.

These individuals often recount tales of sending out hundreds of resumes without getting a job.

Such paragraphs often recount a singularly unusual event, something surprising or startling, something that reveals depths in character or situation by a flash, like lightning.

Critics of Christian schools often recount a different history, one that is rooted in the creation of southern segregationist academies to allow white students to escape court - ordered busing.

Adoptive parents, and parents who have breastfed or «chestfed» after breast reduction surgery or «top surgery,» often recount that the benefits gained through bonding are more important than the amount of milk produced.

And they often recount the challenge of feeling the solidarity of which you speak.

During our conversations, he would often recount Dr. Yellen being approachable and polite to everyone around her (TAs, students, fellow faculty members).

DeWall's friends who have kids often recount mindlessly eating their children's leftovers — a Chicken McNugget here, a few French fries there.

She often recounts the stories of her childhood.

Indeed, he has often recounted his remembrance of his first encounter with the 21 - year - old future superstar — how he shot a second - round 66 to make it into the final pairing with Woods on Saturday, believed he held an advantage over the new kid thanks to his seven previous Masters starts, started the day 6 - under to his playing partner's 9 - under, and told the media after the round that Tiger had the green jacket sewn up and would win the tourney by more than nine shots.

Some articles, however, are repetitive because Gordon often recounted the same experience for the two magazines to which he contributed what he called his «little gabbles or talks.»

My husband often recounts the distant, style attributed to Litvish coolness where a father takes leave of his son with no more than a handshake and disciplines with a slap.

Laws has often recounted the story of the savaging he took from fellow MPs in a meeting of the Parliamentary Liberal Democrat Party upon publication.

Andrew Cuomo has often recounted that Mario Cuomo, as he aged, would shush his family whenever Pelosi appeared on television.

In the past, when I would ask about their reading practices, they often recounted that they would get to the bottom of a page of text and realize they had no clue about what they had just read.

A friend often recounts how a mix - up by her teacher over her German GCSE syllabus meant she was told to read the wrong books.

While lurid tales are often recounted in local folklore of other outrageous rituals enacted, very little remaining information or evidence exists of the activities of the Askeaton Hellfire.

Anne often recounts the many times she was on her hands and knees bagging and labeling fossil specimens in such exotic locations as vineyards in France, precipitous slopes in the Dolomite mountains in Italy and hot, dusty deserts in Turkey.

Harry Burns often recounts the words the priest spoke that day.

That line is often recounted and it remains true to this day in all aspects of life here in Canada.

Not exact matches

«Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never - before - disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self - preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.»

Despite Mallaby's critical recounting of the shady dealings in which hedge funds have often partaken, and the damage they've done their investors and the markets, there's an argument here for their continued unfettered operation.

While McNamara recounts a history of repeated efforts on the part of the Church hierarchy to cloister women both from the world and male clerics, thus preventing any participation in sacramental or authoritative roles, her account also tells the story of countless women religious who endured, thrived, and often achieved renown despite such restrictive efforts.

On the contrary, his «restlessness» always threatens to erupt, too often in the tragic ways that Landes recounts.

Theoreticians of narrative discourse have noted that in narration the author often disappears and it is as though the events recounted themselves.

The story of Jesus has been recounted so often and so well in other books — and best of all in the New Testament — that it need not be repeated here in any detail.

I asked for the recipe, and scribbled down the offhand recounting of a cook who has fashioned a dish so often, measurements are not longer consciously considered.

You know, it's not like it used to be, as often, and you know for me, before..., while I was pregnant, I actually read a book of women recounting their own tales of breastfeeding and one of the women talked about finding all of these men who were....

Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make and the operations he then undertakes — in both cases, often quite literally a matter of life and death.

Over the last decade I've often drawn inspiration from his account of the trials he faced and recounted in It's Not About the Bike.

Cuomo often lists his achievements as governor when he gives speeches, and he likes to recount how he turned the state's finances around, as in his Inaugural address earlier this year.

«Giving up control is not something I've done often in my life,» the governor writes in All Things Possible, his recent autobiography, recounting his reluctance to rely on navigational instruments during a foggy boat trip down the East Coast.

Journalist Seth Shulman recounts this episode and dozens of other case studies to illustrate how often objective data have been sacrificed to ideology under the current Bush administration.

South recounted a conversation with the mother of a child he recently diagnosed: to cope with stress, the child often pulled her mother's hair, «so I just have a lot less hair than I used to,» she told him.

This offering can prove both useful and fun, as one user recounts: A large majority of vegetarians are female, vegetarians often have higher levels of education, and they are less likely to drink.

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

As has often been recounted, Allen shot September twice in its entirety, with different scenes and a partly different cast (initially with Maureen O'Sullivan as Diane, Sam Shepard as Peter, Charles Durning as Howard; Christopher Walken was actually first cast as Peter but was jettisoned just days in).

But as the title suggests, Turner's recollections aren't about his unlikely but utterly affecting May - December romance; rather, he recounts how, at the end of her life, Grahame sought to reconnect with her then ex-lover, seeking refuge in his working - class home in Liverpool to be tended by his loving, unruly, often tartly amusing family.

«A lot of people still think that apes are fairly violent,» Hastie says, and she recounts how she often overhears zoo visitors describing a male gorilla's expression as mean and angry.

When the history is recounted, there is often a tendency to embed lynching in an overly - simplistic narrative.

In this raucous collection of true - life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one - night stand.

He collected hugs like a kid collects baseball cards, recounting who had hugged him best and most often, always keeping score.

Tune in for a weird, funny, often confusing episode of three girls trying to recount their stories with pets while attempting to speak into a microphone.

When casually recounting — in person, to friends — stories about this or that performance last night, I have often been teased about my proclivity for starting with the less immediately relevant details about who was there, how many, which audience members left halfway through, and whether someone looked back to tell me to please stop talking so they could more fully enjoy David Parsons.

Candice Breitz recounts pressures to make work about her nationality in a 2001 interview: «While German artists are not expected to make work about würst and Canadian artists are not expected to make art about ice - hockey, there is often a silent rule when it comes to the inclusion of artists from less mainstream art countries: «make art about where you're from, and about what makes you different... Or stay at home.»

Strachan specifically explores often - invisible shifts in cultures, physical environments, and recounted histories over both space and time, in the wake of globalization and narratives of progress.

Katz has always steeped himself in the literature of his time, having often painted and collaborated with poets, and it is no surprise that his take on autobiography should be particularly considered and original in its composition: the entire text of Invented Symbols is in fact a transcription of the artist recounting his memories aloud, typed up by his son, poet Vincent Katz.

I am reminded of the late New York Times critic John Russell's description of Katz, as recounted in his wife Rosamond Bernier's recent memoir Some of My Lives: «John found Alex a champion verbalizer: «His abrupt and often astonishing phrases come at us one by one, fast and unexpected, the way the little black ball comes at us in squash court.

That's why I love Story Collider, a storytelling project, both onstage and online, in which scientists and people affected by science recount short, often funny, sometimes disturbing experiences, mostly in front of audiences, cabaret - style.

And they hear from an array of guests, often via Skype, who recount what they've learned as public scientists.