Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was “ a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller .” Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard, Jerome Charyn, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as “ Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O ' Connor .” The influential profile writer and music journalist Stanley Booth observed that Suttree was “ probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy ’ s books ... which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature .”

Fisher called Tracht " the most talented of the shock jocks, a storyteller so verbally nimble, so fantastically imaginative that his showmanship seemed wasted on an audience of adolescent guys.

Each story takes a scientific " fact " ( though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding ), and builds an imaginative story around it.

A psychobiographical study by Philip Lucas and Anne Sheeran, which takes into account Bentham's eccentricities, egocentricity, obsessive and narrow preoccupations, and apparently diminished imaginative and emotional capacity, concludes that he may have had Asperger's syndrome.

Like much of modern and contemporary art, noise music takes characteristics of the perceived negative traits of noise mentioned below and uses them in aesthetic and imaginative ways.

Babe: Pig in the City takes place in an imaginative fantasy-like Metropolis.

The Story of Wenamun was discovered with another historical fiction, the so-called Tale of Woe Pushkin 127, which takes the form of an imaginative letter as a vehicle to convey a narrative ; see Caminos 1977 for discussion of both works.

And to speculate about other creatures in other worlds takes us into the imaginative narrative that comprises Lewis ’ s Ransom Trilogy, especially Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra.

Her paintings take anywhere between two days and two years to complete, and usually start by her " going out and getting pissed with my friends ", when she takes the photographs which provide the initial ideas, although the images she works from are often " very bad, dark, fuzzy photos ", necessitating subsequent real life studies as well as imaginative interpretation.

To carry out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale.

But the facts about our Advisory Board and its members' duties are only one of several sets of facts about the quest for advice, both reliable and imaginative, on which to base our selections of Fellows.

The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.

Secondly, the adolescent audience which feasted on the blood and morbidity of the previous decade grew up, and the replacement audience for films of an imaginative nature were being captured instead by the explosion of science-fiction and fantasy films, courtesy of the special effects possibilities with advances made in computer-generated imagery.

Heavily influenced by the teaching methods of Anthony Stirling, Johnstone set out to rediscover the imaginative world of childhood, the origins of creativity and spontaneity, and the ability to tell stories in an attempt to shift what he saw as the ‘ pretentiousness ’ of theatre to something much less dependent on intellect.

Especially the episodes Jeff and Hand on the Gun are in their depiction of violence and with their imaginative directing remarkable forerunners of his later feature films.

Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the nickname Snakefinger, after his frantic playing on the violin during the performance with the Residents at The Boarding House in San Francisco 1971, where his fingers ' speed made them look like snakes in the eyes of the less-musically proficient, but imaginative Residents.

It is no accident that even today Thucydides turns up as a guiding spirit in military academies, neocon think tanks and the writings of men like Henry Kissinger ; whereas Herodotus has been the choice of imaginative novelists ( Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient and the film based on it boosted the sale of the Histories to a wholly unforeseen degree ) and — as food for a starved soul — of an equally imaginative foreign correspondent from Iron Curtain Poland, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

In 1953 Shirley Graham built on the work of Quaife and Jeremie in a " biography " of Point du Sable that she described as " not accurate history nor pure fiction ", but rather " an imaginative interpretation of all the known facts ".

* A rather imaginative variation on throat singing is featured in the 2007 Dan Simmons novel, The Terror.

( In an imaginative and high-spirited scene, Anne " wins her freedom " from Henry in a game of cards on their wedding night ).

The version by Virginia Woolf, from the perspective of Elizabeth's dog, is also an imaginative reconstruction, though more closely based on reading the letters.

Many found in cassette-culture music that was more imaginative, challenging, beautiful, and groundbreaking than output released on vinyl.

This led to imaginative adaptations of two plays by Alan Ayckbourn, and two different styles of musical in On connaît la chanson ( Same Old Song ) ( 1997 ) and Pas sur la bouche ( Not on the Lips ) ( 2003 ).

Jonathan Z. Smith, a scholar of comparative religions, writes the category is " largely a misnomer based on imaginative reconstructions and exceedingly late or highly ambiguous texts.

Sister Nivedita, an admirer of the painting, opined that the picture was refined and imaginative, with Bharatmata standing on green earth and blue sky behind her ; feet with four lotuses, four arms meaning divine power ; white halo and sincere eyes ; and gifts Shiksha-Diksha-Anna-Bastra of motherland to her children.

In the short term Price would commission Nash to design Castle House Aberystwyth ( 1795 ), its plan took the form of a rightangled triangle, with an octagonal tower at each corner, sited on the very edge of the sea, this marked a new and more imaginative approach to design in Nash's work.

He soon rebelled against this version of Christianity: according to Benjamin Ferrey, Pugin " always expressed unmitigated disgust at the cold and sterile forms of the Scotch church ; and the moment he broke free from the trammels imposed on him by his mother, he rushed into the arms of a church which, pompous by its ceremonies, was attractive to his imaginative mind.

Mr. Serling conceived his playlet in imaginative terms and underscored his point that science cannot foretell what may be the effect of total isolation on a human being.

* Criterion ( ii ): The innovative and intellectually imaginative landscape of the Beemster Polder had a profound and lasting impact on reclamation projects in Europe and beyond.

In Brazil, Santos-Dumont bought a small lot on the side of a hill in the city of Petrópolis, in the mountains near Rio de Janeiro, and in 1918 built a small house there filled with imaginative mechanical gadgetry including an alcohol-fueled heated shower of his own design.

It often imposes imaginative status on certain sections of the urban realm ( local buildings, kerbs, street objects, etc .).

" Robert Christgau gave the album an A −; he wrote, " this A is an imaginative, imitative variation on a pop staple: sadness made pretty.

The mimetic character of the imaginative consciousness tends to express itself in the presentation of artistic forms and materials.

There is a wildly imaginative fantasy sequence during the climax, when the character named Crazy starts hallucinating during a rooftop shooting spree.

Doug centers on the surreal and imaginative exploits of its title character, Douglas " Doug " Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington, Virginia.

In 1828 he exhibited his first oil picture, the " Hopes of Early Genius dispelled by Death ," which was followed by " Cain, Nimrod, Adam and Eve singing their Morning Hymn ," " Sarpedon carried by Sleep and Death ," and other subjects of a poetic and imaginative character.

He represents the point-of-view character for the sophisticated and imaginative, but non-technical, reader.

Tintin is an intelligent and imaginative character with good powers of deduction.

What was there new, or modern, or imaginative, or efficient, or economical in trying to give modern Washington the character of Imperial Rome?

Ernest Pratt, a gambling, womanizing, cowardly, hard-drinking writer has created a dashing literary hero, Nicodemus Legend, the main character in a series of wildly imaginative dime novels set in the untamed West.

" The same reviewer said that the character designs were " magnificent " and that, " the tiny details on the clockwork birds and imaginative effects are stunning.

( 1438 – 48 ; early adherent of Old Norse mythology ), Jöns Bengtsson ( Oxenstierna ) ( 1448 – 67 ; King of Sweden ), Jakob Ulfsson ( 1470 – 1514 ; founder of Uppsala University ), Gustav Trolle ( 1515 – 21 ; supporter of the Danish King ), Johannes Magnus ( 1523-26: wrote an imaginative Scandianian Chronicle ), Laurentius Petri ( 1531 – 73 ; main character behind the Swedish Lutheran reformation ), Abraham Angermannus ( 1593 – 99 ; controversial critic of the King ), Olaus Martini ( 1601 – 09 ), Petrus Kenicius ( 1609 – 36 ),

But, wishing to maintain his tie to his father and the imaginative world of his childhood, he turned back to the character his father had drawn and taught himself to draw in his father's style.

It challenged the boundaries for horror figures by the company's previous standards and mixed in elements and themes reminiscent of the Clive Barker lines ( released beginning in 2001 ), while generating a uniquely imaginative vision of each character.

One of his most ambitious and imaginative projects was a provocative assessment of the impact of increasingly powerful personal preference on the spatial character of American society.

The meaning becomes an effective force when alienated from the character bearing the name and internalized like a virus by his victim: " In The Faerie Queene, Archimago's false likenesses insinuate themselves into the hero's inmost imaginative faculties and divide him from himself.

Thompson's character creations are not always highly imaginative: a medieval knight ( Sir Hokus of Pokes in The Royal Book of Oz ), a circus elephant ( Kabumpo in Kabumpo in Oz ), and an animated statue ( the Public Benfactor in The Giant Horse of Oz ) fall below the level of Baum's greatest grotesques.

There is a wildly imaginative fantasy sequence during the climax, when the character named Crazy starts hallucinating during a rooftop shooting spree.