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remarks and preface
Janet Hitchman, in the preface to " Striding Folly ", remarks that " Wimsey may have been the sad ghost of a wartime lover (...).
The text is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, Bemerkungen, translated by Anscombe as " remarks ".
By Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery ( with preface and remarks ) ( Letchworth: Garden City Press, 1912 ).
Gluck ( whose remarks on the function of overtures in the preface to Alceste are historic ) based himself on Italian models, of loose texture.
In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.
In the preface to Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum remarks that the Wizard had turned out to be a popular character with the children who had read the first book, and so he brought the Wizard back.
Dr Edleston, in his preface to Newton's correspondence with Cotes, justly remarks: " If Flamsteed the Astronomer-Royal had cordially co-operated with him in the humble capacity of an observer in the way that Newton pointed out and requested Of him ... the lunar theory would, if its creator did not overrate his own powers, have been completely investigated, so far as he could do it, in the first few months of 1695, and a second edition of the Principia would probably have followed the execution of the task at no long interval.
Otto Jahn the first great Mozart scholar apparently viewed this copy early in the 1860's, as he directs remarks about it in the preface to his 1862 edition on Mozart.
Ludlow highlights this in his concluding preface remarks:
In the preface to the 1800 Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth remarks that the purpose of this poem, as of The Mad Mother, is to trace " the maternal passion through many of its more subtle windings.
In his preface to both the British and American editions of the book, Vernon Sproxton remarks that he has seen Anna's drawings and notes and that he believes her to be real.
As he remarks in the book's preface, the original assignment was to produce a " photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers.

remarks and novel
In the book by Silvia Iannello Le immagini e le parole dei Malavoglia, the author selects some passages of the Verga novel, adds original comments and Acitrezza's photographic images, and devotes a chapter to the origins, remarks and frames taken from the movie.
In the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer's patron remarks that Vermeer used " cow piss " to paint his wife.
References to guide dogs date at least as far back as the mid-16th century ; the second line of the popular verse alphabet " A was an Archer " is most commonly " B was a Blind-man / Led by a dog " In the 19th century verse novel Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the title character remarks " The blind man walks wherever the dog pulls / And so I answered.
In the film industry, Manheim remarks at one point in the novel, it is the rule rather than the exception that " convictions are for sale ," with people double-crossing each other whenever the slightest chance presents itself to them.
One theory is that it comes from a line in Ernest Hemingway's novel " A Moveable Feast " where in describing a particularly annoying sound, Hemingway remarks that it " was no worse than other noises, certainly better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon.
Van Gulik's intent in writing his first Judge Dee novel was, as he wrote in remarks on The Chinese Bell Murders, " to show modern Chinese and Japanese writers that their own ancient crime-literature has plenty of source material for detective and mystery-stories ".
* William Styron prefaced his 1951 novel Lie Down In Darkness with the same quotation as noted above in the remarks about Willie Morris's memoir.
In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler decides to call his newborn daughter " Bonnie Blue Butler " when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are " as blue as the Bonnie Blue
In Roald Dahl's novel Matilda, Ms. Trunchbull makes a habit of tormenting the schoolchildren so outrageously that one character remarks that she may be doing this in order that any children to report their mistreatment would not be believed.
* In Dodie Smith's novel, I Capture the Castle ( 1940 ), the book's protagonist remarks that Debussy's Clair de Lune reminds her of " Dover Beach " ( in the film adaptation of the novel, the character quotes ( or, rather, misquotes ) a line from the poem ).
The subterranean rivers of London feature in e. g. the novel " Drowning Man " by Michael Robotham as well as in the novel Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh in which a character remarks:
Poirot remarks that they indeed went on a hunting trip ( something that Hastings was always planning to do throughout the novel ).
In the post-publication review for The New York Times, Edward Rothstein remarks that the scope of the novel is at times detrimental: " Unfortunately, in this novelistic cauldron it can sometimes seem as if mercury's vapors had overtaken the author himself, as if every detail he had learned had to be anxiously crammed into his text, while still leaving the boundaries between fact and invention ambiguous ".
David Kozol remarks on the melancholy that pervaded Josef Sudek's work and a similar melancholy has settled through the novel.
* When they begin researching the book on which the planet's scene is based, Picard reads the book's opening sentence, " It was a dark and stormy night "— the famous opening of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford — and remarks, " Not a promising beginning.
* In the 2011 fantasy novel Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer, Darquesse crashes through the Dublin store's window and remarks, " A comic store.
4, Part 1, 1904-5, noting that the book " has already been translated into most of the languages of continental Europe ", remarks that " Singoalla is a novel occupying a pre-eminent place among Rydberg's prose writings.
In a note to the Czech edition of the book, Kundera remarks that the movie had very little to do with the spirit either of the novel or the characters in it.
Shortly afterwards he wrote to Young declaring, “ an unfinished novel ’ s before me now, and sometimes I work at it with distaste and despair … You certainly have done more than any individual I know to help me by direct remarks.
) Harvard Crimson noted, similar to McInerney, that " Celebrity by itself teeters so often into self-parody that it seems too easy to bash it " but remarks that " Fortunately, Ellis does more than that injecting Glamorama with a sharper plot than those of earlier novels, a plot which kicks in about a quarter of the way into the novel.
Early in the novel she receives a letter and remarks that her name was correctly spelled, which is " an unusual thing ", suggesting her name is strange, foreign or complex.
As the novel nears completion, Ruby remarks that, prior to that event, neither she nor her brother had a true concept of what pain was really like ; none of them truly fathomed the importance of their actions and the feud until they were personally hit by it.

remarks and can
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
With the above results we can make the following remarks about the graph of F.
" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.
When Luke Rattigan asks how they can tell each other apart in " The Sontaran Stratagem ", General Staal remarks that they say the same of humans.
While some of the chroniclers ' remarks can be interpreted simply as homosexuality or bisexuality, too many of them are either much later in date or the product of hostility.
According to sociologist Harry Lefever and journalist John Leland, the game is almost exclusive to African Americans ; other ethnic groups often fail to understand how to play the game and can take remarks in the Dozens seriously.
Euclides is prompted to share his book when Terpsion wonders where he'd been: Euclides, who apparently can usually be found in the marketplace of Megara, was walking outside of the city and had happened upon Theaetetus being carried from Corinth to Athens with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound ; Euclides remarks that Socrates had made some uncanny predictions about Theaetetus needing to rise to fame.
Socrates remarks that this allegory can be taken with what was said before, namely the metaphor of the Sun, and the divided line.
He later wrote, ' I am sick to death's door of lochawns, and it pains me to the very soul to have to make these remarks, but what can I do when I cannot make the usual progress?
The subterranean rivers of London are mentioned in several novels, including Thrones, Dominations ( by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh ), where a character remarks " You can bury them deep under, sir ; you can bind them in tunnels, ... but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be.
Its Portuguese origins can be detected in the remarks in letters to Lord Lisle, from William Grett, 12 May 1534, " I have sent to your lordship a box of marmaladoo, and another unto my good lady your wife " and from Richard Lee, 14 December 1536, " He most heartily thanketh her Ladyship for her marmalado ".
" You can forgive Gervais a certain arrogance after the success of The Office, but ..." He remarks on the confused tone of the series, taking in the clash between the broad comedy of characters Barry ( Shaun Williamson ) and Darren ( Stephen Merchant ), and the apparent parody of this style with When The Whistle Blows, and " given their total indulgence of Gervais, the BBC is portrayed as interfering, its comedy department run by a rather crudely stereotyped gay couple ".
Similar remarks can be made in many other cases.
Stökl remarks that “ the name of place of judgment ( Dudael ) is conspicuously similar in both traditions and can likely be traced to a common origin .”
In remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported on September 17, 2007, Abizaid stated, " We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it.
In these early exchanges and in the parallel debate over the proper understanding of Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following, some of McDowell's characteristic intellectual stances were formed: to borrow a Wittgensteinian expression, the defence of a realism without empiricism, an emphasis on the human limits of our aspiration to objectivity, the idea that meaning and mind can be directly manifested in the action, particularly linguistic action, of other people, and a distinctive disjunctive theory of perceptual experience.
A glimpse of Hong Tianguifu's character can be seen by his remarks before his execution: " Guangdong isn't a nice place, I don't want to go back.
Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person ’ s sex.
As opposed to being nice to someone's face while making disparaging remarks behind their back, teasing can be a way to express differences in a direct fashion rather than internalizing them.
" In his remarks at the terminal's February 7, 2005, dedication, Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated that " You can walk into this spectacular terminal day or night and feel like you're part of the city ... ( the terminal ) is a continuation of what you feel on the ferry ... in a sense you are suspended over the water.
" He is a childlike bumbler who creates messes and can get away with making insulting but true remarks that would get many people fired.
According to the social psychologist Jovan Byford, similar and although less violent remarks can be found in New Speeches under the Mountain, The Ohrid Prologue or Indian Letters

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