Citations:story
See also: Citations:stories
English citations of story
sense: soap opera
[edit]- Alice Walker, "The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?":
- We had managed to buy our first television set. It was battered and overpriced, but my mother had gotten used to watching the afternoon soap operas […] , and nothing could satisfy her […] but a continuation of her "stories."
- 2002, Jane Heller, Cha Cha Cha, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 173:
- "Mrs. Waxman is watching her stories," said Nora as she led me into the den where my mother was […] watching a videotaped episode of "As the World Turns."
- 2003, Sandra Brown, Hello, Darkness, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 235:
- "Shut the goddamn door. I can't see my TV with that light shining on it, and my story's on."
- "You and your stories." […]
- His mother said nothing else until the soap opera went into a commercial break.
Architecture
[edit]- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, chapter I:
- The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
- 1994, David K. Jordan, “The Popular Practice of Religion”, in Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan[1], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 139:
- An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high.