Somerset Maugham considered it a great novel, although he found David the weakest character in it, unworthy of the real Dickens, praising Mr Mickawber, who " never fails ", and considered that Little Em ' ly got what she was asking for.

In spending several chapters lamenting the state of the arts in America he fails to envision the literary Renaissance that would shortly arrive in the form of such major writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.

When Wesley fails to convince the Watchers ' Council to help save the life of her vampire lover Angel ( David Boreanaz ), an enraged Buffy severs all ties with them.

The attempt fails and Meade ends up having to re-commit David to the sanitarium.

But after he fails to receive a promotion he was counting on and is asked to transfer to the firm's New York office instead, David angrily insults his boss and is fired.

David is left to babysit but fails to notice she has taken one of the pills.

Joe doesn't want to, but David tells him he will tell Gail about the drugs if he fails to do so.

Zubrin remained committed to the strategy, and after parting with David Baker attempted to convince the new NASA administration of Mars Direct's merits in 1992.

The front office was unable to convince him otherwise and on June 16, 1975, the Bucks pulled a mega-trade by sending Abdul-Jabbar to the Lakers for Elmore Smith, Junior Bridgeman, Brian Winters and David Meyers.

The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier.

J. B. finally finds out about the child ; he assumes that David is the father and no one can convince him otherwise, especially when, in a bit of bad timing, Polly and David each produce a different man whom they claim is the father.

The road development ends when Tubbs and Edward discover that the construction manager is their long lost son, David, and convince him to end construction and live " locally ".

Regarding the new regime's apparent animosity towards all of Puttnam's projects and Munchausen, Gilliam added in the same documentary, " I was trying very hard to convince Dawn Steel that this was not a David Puttnam movie, it was a Terry Gilliam movie ".

On that day, Sierra Club leader David Brower entered the Oval Office in a last-ditch effort to save Glen Canyon from inundation – but failed to convince the president.

The project is first delayed when a monster ( later revealed to be parts of a goat, a pig and a chimp crudely stitched together ) is unearthed on the construction site and comes to an end in the final episode when the owner of PQ Construction, David Tattsyrup, is revealed to be the son of the proprietors of the local shop who convince him to " live locally.

David Roden managed to convince producer John Nathan-Turner not to use either title, and instead settled on Dimensions In Time.

To convince David to flee to safety, Tommy reveals his identity to him.

President Woodrow Wilson and Prime Minister David Lloyd George in Paris had been the only previous leaders to meet face-to-face, but had enjoyed nothing that could be described as a special relationship, although Lloyd George's wartime Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, got on well with Wilson during his time in the United States and helped convince the previously skeptical president to enter the war.

Sports visionary David Dixon ( who decades later founded the United States Football League ) conceived of the Superdome while attempting to convince the NFL to award a franchise to New Orleans.

David Dockery, the president of the University, said: I'm convinced-nobody will ever convince me otherwise-that God's angels were unleashed to come as minstering spirits to protect those students in the most precarious of situations.

In a meeting with David Lloyd George, French commander-in-chief General Nivelle was able to convince the British Prime Minister that if the British launched a diversionary assault to draw German troops away from the Aisne sector, the French offensive could succeed.

Sarah tries to convince Gail that David is sending the cards.

The piece is featured prominently in " Morale Victory ," an episode from the 8th season of the long-running American television series M * A * S * H. Major Charles Winchester ( David Ogden Stiers ) uses it and Wittgenstein's story to convince a drafted concert pianist ( James Stephens ), whose right hand has been permanently injured in combat, not to give up his musical gift despite his wounds.

In the 1985 film Lost in America, Julie Hagerty's character Linda Howard loses the couple's " nest egg " at the Desert Inn, leading to a memorable scene in which Albert Brooks ' character David Howard tries to convince the Casino manager ( Garry Marshall ) to give them their money back.

David is very skeptical, but Karl, Ruthie and Greg convince him to stay.

As Alain David says in an article published in the French journal Revue philosophique de la France et de l ’ Etranger ( number 3, July-September 2001 ), the thought of Michel Henry seems so radical, it affects our habitual ways of thinking so deeply, that it has had a difficult reception, even if all his readers declare themselves impressed by its " power ", by the " staggering effect " of a thought which " sweeps everything clean on its way through ", which " prompts admiration ", but nevertheless " doesn ’ t really convince ", as we don ’ t know whether we are confronted by " the violence of a prophetic voice or by pure madness ".

Now united in the belief that The Wave must be stopped, Laurie and David go to the home of the Rosses in order to convince Ben Ross to terminate the program.

David Schuller, chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology in the medical school at Ohio State and helped convince John that he could be successful both academically and athletically.

In the episode, Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny discover the magician David Blaine performing in South Park and decide to join his cult, the Blaintologists Stan quickly finds out that the Blaintologists are not as nice as everyone thinks and tries to convince the other boys they've been brainwashed, but they have forsaken their friends and families.

The rebels intended to dethrone George in favor of the king's fraternal nephew, Demna, who was considered by many to be a legitimate royal heir of his murdered father, David V. Demna's cause was little but a pretext for the nobles, led by the pretender's father-in-law, the amirspasalar (" constable ") Ivane Orbeli, to weaken the crown.

Elected officers were Moses Bascom Jr. as town clerk and treasurer, Moses Bascom, William Smalley and Noah Munn as selectmen and assessors, and David Squires as constable.

The premise of the series centres on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) constable named Benton Fraser ( Paul Gross ) who travels to Chicago to solve the murder of his father ; this is how he meets his soon-to-be partner, Ray Vecchio ( David Marciano ), a tough, streetwise cop.

Claudius was the eldest son of David Smith ( 1701 – 1787 ), a respected tailor, cattleman, miller, constable, clergyman, and finally judge in Brookhaven, New York.

From those navy-blue eyes she saw things as clearly and honestly as David did.

Following Fox's subsequent elimination, she took time to reflect before finally declaring for David Davis.

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

Abigail (, spelled Abigal in ) was the wife of Nabal ; she became a wife of David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ).

After Abigail reveals to Nabal what she has done, " YHWH struck Nabal and he died ," ( v. 38 ), after which David married her.

" David marries Bathsheba and she bears his child, " but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

David refused to intervene in her favor, and she was executed.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

Her first success was in Ireland as Lady Townley ( in The Provok'd Husband by Vanbrugh and Cibber ), and it was only after five years, on the pressing invitation of David Garrick, that she returned to Drury Lane.

David Norwood, British GM, in recalling Judit beating him when he was an established player and she was just a child, described her as, " this cute little auburn-haired monster who crushed you.

: Reno in congressional testimony stated that she authorized the FBI assault on the Branch Davidians because of reports that Militia groups were enroute to Waco during the standoff " either to help Davidian leader David Koresh or to attack him.

David Nickerson, Olson's attorney stated that this status reflected the Department of Corrections ' view that she was a potential flight risk.

Khandi currently stars in the award-winning HBO television series by David Simon, Treme, where she plays a bar owner in an affected neighborhood of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

* In The X-Files season 6, episode 7, first aired January 3, 1999, Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) tells Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) that she believes a woman, Laura, played by Lisa Jane Persky, had taken a Mandrake medication to give herself a self-abortion to get rid of her " devil baby "

Her next release was David Dhawan's Yaraana opposite Rishi Kapoor, in which she played a dancer on the run from her abusive lover.

In 2002, she performed a triple-role alongside Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg's acclaimed thriller Spider, a film that won her several international critics ' awards.

These include the Emmy-nominated 1966 Frank Sinatra special A Man and His Music-Part II, and the 1967 NBC Emmy Award nominated for ' Special Classification of Individual Achievements ' by choreographer David Winters TV special Movin ' With Nancy, in which she appeared with Lee Hazlewood, her father and his Rat Pack pals Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., with a cameo appearance by her brother Frank Sinatra, Jr. and guest star appearance by West Side Story dancer David Winters.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

At the funeral for a child murdered by the Real IRA in Omagh she symbolically walked up the main aisle of the church hand-in-hand with the Ulster Unionist Party leader and then First Minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, MP.

As made clear in the earlier story of Absalom's rebellion, to possess the royal harem was in this society tantamount to claiming the throne ; this applied even to a woman who had shared the bed of a king advanced in age, though she had no intimate relations with King David.