6 sentences with 'biography'
Example sentences and phrases with the word biography and other words derived from it.
• « In his bestselling biography Ford: The Men and the Machine, Robert Lacey chronicles Ford's dazzling triumphs, his embarrassing fiascos and - very pathetically - his tragic failure as a father. »
• « In Suetonius' biography it is said that on Capri, Tiberius indulged his penchant for bloodshed and sexual abuse, which is highly questionable; what is not questionable is that Tiberius became bitter and suspicious, ordering the murders of several aspirants to his throne in Rome, and at times ignoring the affairs of state. »
• « In the end, a biography of Michelangelo written by a friend helped to cement the idea that there was an important distinction between mere craftsmen and true artists, the latter temperamental and mercurial but possessed of genius. Thus the whole idea of the artist as an ingenious social outsider derives in part from Michelangelo's life. »
• « Yet nothing in Hitler's biography seems to suggest his rise to power. Hitler was born in Austria in 1889, a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. »
• « This is the heartening biography of Stephen Hawking, the extraordinary Cambridge professor who explores with his mind the vast expanses of intergalactic space and who has contributed so much to our understanding of the universe we inhabit: how it originated, why we are what we are, and what our ultimate fate is likely to be. »
• « As the elevator slowly descended, everyone had to endure the woman's detailed biography, as well as her opinions on a concert she had just attended and on music in general. »