Finally it adds enough lively anecdotes to persuade even the most pacific reader of the sword's importance.

He revolved slowly, facing every other guest in turn: and he told lively anecdotes the whole time!

This entertaining book moves at a rapid clip and is full of lively anecdotes of hard-won advertising campaigns.

He has a way of embedding unavoidable technicalities in the middle of lively anecdotes, so that the reader learns almost without noticing.

There's a lot of forgivable rambling here - the 10 interviews are largely unstructured - but it's more than offset by sharp, lively anecdotes.

His courtroom coverage in "Beyond Malice" is admirably researched and often riveting, with many lively anecdotes.

The book is relatively silent about his mathematical ideas but long on lively anecdote.

This work emphasizes the rulers' personal lives rather than politics and is characterized by lively anecdotes.

Illustrated with lively anecdotes, it provides a valuable insight into life in early modern Asia.

The mechanics of these stunts make for lively anecdotes, as does the Enquirer method of holding sources captive to keep them away from other reporters.