Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

I disagree with the writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

For some time this writer has been suggesting a Junior Judging Class for Intermediates over 16 and under 20 years of age who are ineligible to compete in the Junior Class.

It was the haunt of writer Ambrose Bierce, who admired its redwoods.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

Liston is Bill Liston, baseball writer for the Boston Traveler, who quoted Jensen as saying:

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

* John W. Campbell, an influential science fiction writer who " shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction "

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

However, it is the editor who has " the power to impose the dominant definition of the writer and therefore to delimit the population of those entitled to take part in the struggle to define the writer ".

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.

Nevertheless, the writer has never experienced such spontaneity of discussion after film showings.

Since her bereavement this individual has reported to the writer on numerous occasions about how helpful the class discussions were to her in this adjustment crisis.

Yet nationalism has lost few of its charms for the historian, writer or man in the street.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

This trend has also encouraged fake autobiographies, particularly those associated with ' misery lit ,' where the writer has allegedly suffered from being a part of a dysfunctional family, or from social problems, or political repression.

In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.

Susan George of the Transnational Institute has also been a long-term influence on the movement, as the writer of books since 1986 on hunger, debt, international financial institutions and capitalism.

The Historia Ecclesiastica has given Bede a high reputation, but his concerns were different from those of a modern writer of history.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

This has led some to believe that the writer ( s ) or editor ( s ) of Second Zechariah may have been a disciple of the prophet Zechariah.

" A writer has died ," he began, " who, together with Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, forms part of the glory of Russian literature.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

" The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: " With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

Rousseau, a writer of great force and vivacity, is totally destitute of taste in any sense of the word.

His selections indicated a taste for paranoia and " the darkest of dark comedy ," according to a writer for The New York Times, and included Frenzy, Dr. Strangelove, Brewster McCloud, The Big Clock, The Seventh Victim, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 version ), Seconds, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 version ).

Sometimes he would meet the young writer Chabanon, who noted some of Rameau's disillusioned confidential remarks: " Day by day, I'm acquiring more good taste, but I no longer have any genius " and " The imagination is worn out in my old head ; it's not wise at this age wanting to practise arts that are nothing but imagination.

Playwright Patrick Marber, whose early collaborations with Coogan included The Day Today and being the principal writer of both radio and TV versions of Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge, has also been working on the script, but the pair put their plans on hold following the London bombings, for fear the screenplay would appear in bad taste.

The revival of topiary in English gardening parallels the revived " Jacobethan " taste in architecture ; John Loudon in the 1840s was the first garden writer to express a sense of loss due to the topiary that had been removed from English gardens.

About Kemble's poetry, John Wilson ( Scottish writer ) stated, " Stephen Kemble was a man of excellent talents, and taste too ; and we have a volume of his poems ... in which there is considerable powers of language, and no deficiency either of feeling or of fancy.

Commenting on her critics, she observed, " If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste ," and as to the frankness of her work, she stated, " Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend, and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Others mourned the loss of good taste as when The Nation referred to Chopin as " one more clever writer gone wrong.

Chitrita Banerji in her book quotes a nineteenth century Bengali writer mentioning that " it was impossible to taste the full glory of vegetarian cooking unless your own wife became a widow ".

The well-regarded science fiction writer and critic Damon Knight, in In Search of Wonder ( 1956 ), wrote of the novel's " bad taste, inconsistency, irrationality, and downright factual errors ", but called the ending of the book " grotesquely moving ".

Many famous people have stopped by to taste the famous Cuneesi al rhum, including the famous writer Ernest Hemingway in 1954.

The readers were not always accepting ; one reader in a letter in 1949 supported " jettisoning the taboos ", but a letter writer in 1946 objected to " Lorelei of the Red Mist ", saying that he needed " a pint of Listerine to wash the dirty taste out of my mouth ".

Cricket writer Ivo Tennant believes that " his taste for conviviality was his undoing ".

His influence upon taste and critical opinion was greater than that of any writer of his time, and can only be compared with that of Holberg in the 18th century.

American food writer James Peterson specifically recommends using fatback for larding ; salt pork, he says, " has a funny taste and won't work ".

Dershowitz then challenged professors Mearsheimer and Falk to a “ public debate about why they have endorsed and said such positive things about so hateful and anti-Semitic a book by so bigoted and dishonest a writer .” Falk rejected Dershowitz ' call to debate and wrote to The Daily Caller “ I have a limited taste for the sort of defamatory polemics that the Dershowitz attack mounts .” He wrote that " if the book is fairly read, and not denounced, it is concerned exclusively with ‘ Jewish identity ,’ not with Jews, and explores this reality in a highly personal, passionate, provocative, and honest manner .”

It was designed by Jasu Piasecki after the short description given by the writer: " It has to contain whiskey, be a short drink and taste really good.