Each court hearing opened with a brief biography of the deponent.

This includes critical and historical accounts of the sonnet form, with a brief biography of each poet, but they are genuinely optional, being placed at the end of the book.

We can read it as a brief biography, compelled by the writer's sorrow, of someone once deeply important to him whom he neither understood nor even satisfactorily knew.

The latest incomers make only a passing impression in the book, their stories encapsulated in snapshots: everything conveyed by a brief biography and telling details of lifestyle.

A player's statistics and a brief biography will be written on the back of his card.

Click on a photograph and you get to a page of links to that writer's previous columns, and a more detailed biography.

And reading an extraordinarily detailed biography of an army general can be helpful.

His life has been the subject of a detailed biography by one of his contemporaries.

Beard therefore has developed a number of distinct artistic personalities, each with a detailed biography and portrait photograph, to enable himself to work in a variety of styles and mediums.

Lobbyists often provide their clients with detailed biographies of committee members, listing their interests and the questions they are likely to ask.

Movie buffs will notice that some of the episodes in this fictional biography have real-life parallels.

They are rated on their scents and are given a fictional biography, comically detailing their favorite foods and archenemies.

His fictional biography has been retoconned to justify changes from previous editions' settings.

The book was originally published as a fictional biography, but was taken as truth by many historians of the time.

Lots of writers create fictional biographies for their characters to help to flesh out the details and make their creations 'live' on the page.

One moment this book reads like a serious historical biography, and the next we are plunged into soft-focus romantic gloop.

Both in historical biography and in period chronicle, they are driven by the storytelling impulse.

These lapses are largely the product of an unusual and generally laudable attempt to imbue the genre of historical biography with a sort of methodological wit.

Although he devoted some programmes to classical music and historical biography, most of his work explored aspects of the cinema.

His specialties include the history and philosophy of modern biology, evolutionary theory, the evolution of altruism, twentieth century genetics, and historical biography.

Sooner or later, there will be a major new biography.

And soon enough, there will be a new character to play, a new biography to obsess over.

This new biography will revive interest in an eccentric and rare polymath of the last century.

This new biography doesn't necessarily catch any new fish.

This substantial new biography amounts to the case for the defence.

It was an item that had failed to appear in the official biography published four years earlier.

There was no mention of her in the 800-page official biography of the politician.

Other lucrative offers include one from a publisher for her official biography.

Her life spanned the whole of the twentieth century and this official biography tells not only her story but, through it, that of the country she loved so devotedly.

His official biography also describes him as a deist.

Have you ever read a biography of a famous person and realised, halfway through, that you might well be reading about yourself?

Don't read this biography unless you are prepared to be morally challenged by absolute integrity.

I read their biographies, noticing the common-place things from their lives.

I had an epiphany while reading his biography.

I've always enjoyed reading his biographies.

A short biography allows such things to stand out.

To launch a new artist, record labels will send out, as an accompaniment to the music, a short biography.

A short biography accompanies each campaign, outlining not just the person's medical condition, but also their personal circumstances and interests.

The database includes a short biography of each subject along with artist and repository attributions.

A short biography of each saint hangs on the wall of each classroom.

I knew that someone would write a biography of me.

Then came a school project when pupils were asked to write a biography of a famous person.

As a rule, nobody should write a biography of a living person.

He had been commissioned to write their biography.

I will write my biography for sure.