| Though it is an amusing anecdote, this detail touches on a small but potentially crucial peculiarity in the current international emergency. |
| Allow me to give you a short anecdote, to vary the wearisomeness of my discourse. |
| I remember my predecessor telling a wonderfully self-deprecating anecdote of his initial activities as a theatrical angel. |
| One telling anecdote earlier this year had watchdog watchers aghast and amazed. |
| The only way in which I can recuperate my humiliation is to turn it into an amusing anecdote that elicits laughter or sympathy. |
| There is satire, particularly in the rather tedious Book II, but there is also all the wit, anecdote and engaging thought of good conversation. |
