DOCUMENTARY in a Sentence

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For DOCUMENTARY, below is one of 19 sentences:
Because it was absolutely necessary that you should view the matter through forms of documentary process.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOCUMENTARY
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documentary
 n.  film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event; of or derived from documents
Classic Sentence:
1  At all events, WITHOUT documentary process of that kind, the matter cannot possibly be carried through.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
2  Because it was absolutely necessary that you should view the matter through forms of documentary process.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The documentary's treatment/analysis of the issues was very superficial.
2  The author provides no documentary references to support her assertions.
3  I watched a documentary on the Civil War.
4  Her latest documentary is concerned with youth unemployment.
5  The documentary went through all the graphic details of the operation in unsparing detail.
6  The documentary intersperses graphical animations with film clips of the actual event.
7  In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.
8  The documentary was an example of investigative journalism at its best.
9  A short documentary prefaced the feature movie.
10  He's been researching material for a documentary.
11  The network ran into controversy over claims of faked documentary footage.
12  She has made a television documentary on poverty in our cities.
13  I was examining teachers and teaching in one school using such methods as participant observation, unstructured interviews and documentary evidence.
14  She was able to shoot the rumour down in flames with ample documentary evidence.
15  It was very difficult to encapsulate the story of the revolution in a single one-hour documentary.