anecdote
उपाख्यान
definition
noun
told anecdotes about his job
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
translation of 'anecdote'
noun
उपाख्यान,
छोटी सी कहानी,
छोटी सी घटना का विवरण
example
the use of inversions of hierarchy, 'anecdote', and paradox by Magritte, Dali, and others
Though it is an amusing 'anecdote' , this detail touches on a small but potentially crucial peculiarity in the current international emergency.
If we could keep to addressing the issues rather than dealing in personalities and 'anecdote' , we probably stand a better chance of not getting moved to the Conversation, literally or metaphorically.
The playwright had to approach the struggle to subdue the tangle of confusing 'anecdote' knowing what lesson he wanted it to teach and prepared to discard, distort, and invent in order to present his own version of the meaning of history.
I've made enough speeches to know that you're supposed to connect with the audience by telling a joke or a humorous 'anecdote' or some amusing tale.
The distance between an amusing 'anecdote' and thing that happened can be measured in kilometres.
3 The form or ‘factitiousness’ of the 'anecdote' provides the shape and the subjectivity of the account.
The story was based on an 'anecdote' - a true incident that I had heard from Professor B. Buchshtab.
Natural healthcare tools have included the use of foods, herbs and remedies derived from nature, and their use has evolved independently in diverse cultures using both 'anecdote' and experimentation.
The novel is packed with incident and 'anecdote' and although mainly realist in style borrows some of the familiar techniques of Garcia Marquez's magic realism.
I think this 'anecdote' provides a good example of the limitations confronting a contemporary labour historian who is trying to provide the most honest, accurate account possible.
There was no attempt to relate this experience to the architecture of the seven in any systematic way and Muthesius has to fall back on 'anecdote' - to which I can add my penn'orth.
Some ‘off licence’ indications are substantiated by some evidence, but its efficacy in several other conditions is based on 'anecdote' and observations made in small numbers of patients.
In art, the lure of 'anecdote' always presents serious risks, and a good deal of nineteenth century American art succumbed to that drive to explain and amuse.
There is satire, particularly in the rather tedious Book II, but there is also all the wit, 'anecdote' and engaging thought of good conversation.
Bennett's memoir is full of crucial technical insights into Broadway and Hollywood practice, but by way of instructive 'anecdote' rather than structured discussion.
A pupil of Domenichino, he was most in sympathy with classical art, but he also appreciated the Baroque, and enriched his narratives with 'anecdote' and vivid detail.
On the Web site, in the e-mails of targeted professors, one finds a whole fuzzy world of impression and 'anecdote' , of passionate conviction and hurt feelings.
Burns's handmade tableaux - in style and use of narrative 'anecdote' - are similar to the work of fellow Houstonian, Bill Davenport.
his wife's death has long been the subject of rumour and 'anecdote'
his wife's death has long been the subject of rumor and 'anecdote'
Relying on argument or 'anecdote' for their appeal, these books included only a handful of indifferently reproduced black-and-white plates.
Now, however, we can appreciate the subtlety and unexpectedness of his framing, and the complex interplay he so often achieves between 'anecdote' and form.
Hearsay, 'anecdote' and tall tales says that it is possible, that this is just words until it happens to you.
She suggests, more importantly, that public figures like Jonathan Clarke become more comprehensible when connected to domestic and personal memoir and 'anecdote' .
This is staged documentary, its narrative gleaned from personal statements, in essence, a theatre of personal 'anecdote' , performance art on an operatic scale.
He was a huge fan of Dutch art, stuffed with incident and 'anecdote' .
The appeal of Resnick's account is enhanced by the lure of Bohemia, which he and Passlof enrich with 'anecdote' and intertwine with aesthetics and social history.
His vision of the landscape was subjected to dreamy sentimentalism and romantic 'anecdote' , rather than being acknowledged for its experimentalism and social content.
The book is full of short, interesting 'anecdotes' which capture a moment in time.
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