Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the 'ESPY's' are an especially embarrassing example.

Example is the best precept.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

We need to take examples from Flippo Inzaghi.

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

Hulu understood how much content costs. By remaining defensive, YouTube is losing various aspects of video - long-form, for example - to other companies.

I try to lead by example.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.