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wrote and admiringly
Gilfillan, himself an untrained and poorly-reviewed polemic Christian preacher who occasionally dabbled in poetry, commented admiringly " Shakespeare never wrote anything like this.
The Duke of Wellington's armies used it from 1808 in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, and he wrote admiringly of its effectiveness.
Even travellers from continental Europe had heard of the couple and came to visit them, for instance Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the German nobleman and landscape designer who wrote admiringly about them.
" Langston Hughes wrote admiringly of the radio broadcast in 1956.
In 2008, he frequently wrote admiringly of Ron Paul's Presidential campaign, and has also expressed support for Dennis Kucinich ,.
The most conspicuous of Downes's topics was the music of Sibelius, about which he wrote admiringly as early as 1907.
In 1646 the Papal Nuncio was sent to Ireland ; he stayed for some time in the castle and wrote admiringly of the castle demesne with its beautifully laid out gardens and peacocks strutting on the lawns.
As a result of Lasalle ’ s incredible achievement, Napoleon, admiringly wrote to Murat, Lasalle ’ s superior, “ If your Light Cavalry captures fortified towns, I ’ ll have to discharge my Engineer Corps and have my heavy artillery melted down .” The capitulation of Stettin which had blocked the passage over the River Oder had prevented Prussian General Blücher from passing the frontier into Eastern Pomerania.
Goethe () wrote admiringly of California ’ s Forty-Niners, the State ’ s giant redwood trees, and loved the outdoors.

wrote and about
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.
Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory.
She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!
Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.
Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.
From Gottingen ( 1801 ) where he stayed for 10 days, he wrote, `` The first question asked everywhere is about galvanism.
`` Speaking of nonism: the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier.
I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.
Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.
Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.
After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.
They talked and wrote much about the elemental functions of the body.
Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

wrote and Wobblies
Late in his life, after he had become a voice opposing ( State ) Communists in the labor movement, Chaplin wrote an article, “ Why I wrote Solidarity Forever ,” in which he denounced the “ not-so-needy, not-so-worthy, so-called ‘ industrial unions ’ spawned by an era of compulsory unionism .” He wrote that among Wobblies “ there is no one who does not look with a rather jaundiced eye upon the ‘ success ’ of ‘ Solidarity Forever .’" " I didn't write ' Solidarity Forever ' for ambitious politicians or for job-hungry labor fakirs seeking a ride on the gravy train.
Besides writing his unproduced screenplay for The Raid On Harper's Ferry, Wilson also apparently wrote unproduced scripts for a movie about the IWW, titled The Wobblies, and for a movie about the infiltration of the Black Liberation Movement, titled Quiet Darkness.

wrote and perceived
It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.
In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”
De Grasse wrote that " we perceived by the sailing of the English that they had suffered greatly.
He wrote to a friend, " I have learned to know a Venice in Venice that the others never seem to have perceived, and which, if I bring back with me as I propose, will far more than compensate for all annoyances delays & vexations of spirit.
He also wrote about his then-upcoming court martial and his contempt for the Marine Corps, in particular the inefficiencies he perceived within the Corps.
He wrote that subcultures can be perceived as negative due to their nature of criticism to the dominant societal standard.
Among modern the modern critics of Kabbalah was Yihhyah Qafahh, who wrote a book entitled Milhamoth ha-Shem, ( Wars of the Name ) against what he perceived as the false teachings of the Zohar and the false Kabbalah of Isaac Luria.
Wallis was perceived to be pursuing Edward for his money ; his equerry wrote that she would eventually leave him after " having secured the cash ".
As a response to perceived inaccurate portrayals of race relations in Harriet Beecher Stowe ’ s Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin, Baptist preacher Tom Dixon wrote The Leopard ’ s Spots: A Romance of the White Man ’ s Burden in 1902 asserting White supremacy amidst supposed African American evil and corruption.
'" At the first apparition, Lúcia wrote, the children were so moved by the radiance they perceived that they involuntarily said " Most Holy Trinity, I adore you!
Her biographer Nancy Milford wrote, " Scott had appealed to something in Zelda which no one before him had perceived: a romantic sense of self-importance which was kindred to his own ".
In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its emphasis on traditional formalism and ornate diction.
These have included the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the French writer and pioneering feminist George Sand ( who wrote a notable account of A Winter in Majorca, describing their 1838 – 39 visit and praising the island's natural beauty but criticizing what she perceived as the prejudice and vices of the natives ).
Recently, he wrote an article, published in the Washington Post, concerning the controversy which arose when it was perceived that Bush had criticized Obama during a foreign visit to Israel.
" Forman wrote that Upper Nazareth was meant to address the challenge perceived as emanating from the all-Arab city of Nazareth, and the goal was to build a neighborhood that would overpower Nazareth numerically, economically, and politically.
Bosch accurately perceived the process that had begun from those events, and wrote a letter to Trujillo, dated February 27, 1961.
" He did not blame blacks for their perceived " poor virtue ", but wrote that, " A vulture will always eat carrion when surrounded on all hands by every kind of cleaner food.
Feminists were sceptical about the objectivity of those who wrote about objective culture, as expressed in their perceived androcentricity.
Columnist Bob Greene wrote, " The title of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel became part of the American vernacular — the book was a ground-breaking fictional look at conformity in the executive suite, and it was a piece of writing that helped the nation's business community start to examine the effects of its perceived stodginess and sameness.
Flores Magón wrote several letters to friends complaining of debilitating health problems and of what he perceived to be purposeful neglect by the prison staff.
Neither objection rules out the possibility that he was guilty of the perceived sin himself ; and given the setting and context, it is difficult to see that there can be any doubt, particularly following the discovery of a love poem, " S ' eo son distertto inamoratamente " which Latini wrote to a man, Bondie Dietaiuti.
Discussing the social aspects of the extreme metal scene, author Keith Kahn-Harris wrote that overt Christian bands like Mortification are often " strongly criticized if their commitment to music is perceived to be subordinate to their commitment to politics.
The couple's breakup is perceived to have inspired several Springsteen songs, including most notably " Light of Day ", which Springsteen wrote for the film of the same name.
In 1730 ( in response to his perceived harassment by the officials and out of concern for the deteriorating condition in religious music ), Bach wrote a treatise he entitled “ Kurtzer, iedoch höchstnöthiger Entwurff einer wohlbestallten Kirchen Music ; nebst einigem unvorgreiflichen Bedenkken von dem Verfall derselben.

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