1 He departed from the text to tell an anecdote.

2 This research is based on anecdote not fact.

3 She departed from the text to tell an anecdote.

4 The book is a rich store of anecdote.

5 They loved a bon mot or anecdote but despised gossip.

6 Anyone in my hometown could offer the same anecdote from their family tree.

7 An anecdote could be cited as a means of setting the tone of area of concern.

8 Our most instructive anecdote for this is Gregory's account of the new taxes instituted by Chilperic in 579.

9 Within New Historical writing the anecdote which symbolically reveals some important facet of Renaissance culture is a familiar critical practice.

10 That anecdote, told in Beatrice Hastings' New Age column, seems true to life.

11 The most revealing anecdote that I can tell you about that is from Coventry.

12 He replied that this was one anecdote of Surkov's which had seemed to carry conviction.

13 However,[] recent research has shown that this particular anecdote is unsubstantiated.

14 She told the anecdote with a glint of relish in her eye, revelling in their embarrassment.

15 Consistent testing Implicit in the anecdote about the sore head was the need to test the utterance.

16 Then she told an anecdote that would turn out to have prophetic resonance.

17 Even a slight anecdote of her as a sixteen-year-old girl guide being seduced in a tent by a boy scout is illustrated.

18 But Derek had thought of another anecdote, changing the subject at once.

19 And each clipping prompts an anecdote, often about softball, bowling and football teammates long gone.

20 She exemplified each of the points she was making with an amusing anecdote.

21 The bumbling nature of armoured animals is neatly summed up by an anecdote concerning a family of three-banded armadillos.

22 Spanning several generations of schools and styles, her own recollections are a fascinating mix of knowledgeable anecdote and scurrilous gossip.

23 But now I shall leave you with one final anecdote which impinges on both issues of morale and moral fibre.

24 As they so often did, the brothers began with a telling anecdote.

25 His writing is a joy, combining the telling quote from finance megastars with anecdote to illustrate a substantial point.

26 Indeed, they could have been Hal and his rascally crew. There is no shortage of anecdote or incident at Oxford.

27 But this study, from psychologists in Durham, is demography not anecdote.

28 Much of our evidence about outputs will be based on anecdote and hearsay.

29 They are sure to find something ambivalent about your sexuality and an unflattering anecdote about a nun.

30 I can do this best by way of a personal anecdote, which might be called the Incident of the Taxman and the Philosopher.

1 He departed from the text to tell an anecdote.

31 David Bowsher, writing on paradoxical pain, opens with an anecdote about a consultant convicted of attempted murder.

32 But it was thirty-one years later and recent scholarship has questioned whether the anecdote might not have been a retrospective invention.

33 This hopefully will provide a wealth of reminiscence and anecdote, and might take place anywhere from Putney to Paris.

34 You came to understand more about Erma Bombeck at each stop, with each giggly anecdote.

35 Also good personal anecdote of Mr Gladstone cutting down small cherry tree but being unable to lie.

36 In Emerson almost every sentence is an anecdote, a picture or an epigram.

37 One small anecdote conveys the aura of hopes unfulfilled.

38 He introduced his speech with a humorous anecdote.

39 I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.

40 The question sparks an anecdote about the Korean war.

41 He has a talent for recollection and anecdote.

42 Then he will judge the same anecdote in psychoanalytical terms , giving it a different dimension.Sentence dictionary

43 Her best anecdote is about picking a real estate agent.

44 Anecdote suggests, however fork out find their colonies are far more resistant to CCD.

45 The anecdote is meant to illustrate the ineffectiveness of the Greek leader ("You see how hopeless he is?

46 Last time in the context of the New Historicism, Stephen Greenblatt's brilliant anecdote begins with Queen Elizabeth saying, "I am Richard II, know you not that?"

47 It can be used as a pause or a colon: very handy for spinning out a mere anecdote into a playlet that's full of parody and speculation.

48 People "will latch onto anything," he added, and an anecdote or two about what is supposed to be an ideal running form often passes for evidence.

49 "I want the fact that he has gone to school here to be more than simply an anecdote," says Mr. Veitch.

50 Never misty - eyed , he keeps finding the right anecdote to support his view of American exceptionalism.

51 To make your acceptance speech memorable, use a brief but touching or humorous anecdote—from the project you are nominated for, the people you worked with, or about some little-known fact.

52 You may be able to key off something said by the introducer or open your presentation with a humorous story or anecdote that relates to the context of the meeting.

53 The image of the fox as a pest is grossly exaggerated in anecdote and folklore.

54 An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.

55 A problem with alternative medicine is, of course, that of anecdote and hearsay.

56 This is a more significant anecdote than any tale of spittle.

57 For Roberts, the anecdote amounted to a parable on the pitfalls of economic forecasting.

58 To mere mortals, a graphic metaphor, a compelling anecdote, or a striking fact is worth a thousand articles in Econometrica.

59 Anecdote When a man falls into his anecdotage it is a sign for him to retire from the world.