In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

After starting his writing career by writing for " true confession " style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction.

Adherents of this theory argue that even when the two versions diverge, they both have similarities in vocabulary and writing style — suggesting that the two shared a common author.

In course of time the Apostolic Chancery adopted this mode of writing as the " curial " style, still further abridging by omitting the diphthongs ae and oe, and likewise all lines and marks of punctuation.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

Although the book has been historically classified as " prophetic ", the style of writing is apocalyptic which was popular between 200 BCE and 100 CE.

Another variety of writing style, called boustrophedon, was used in some scripts, such as ancient Greek inscriptions and Hungarian runes.

Also includes runically unrelated: en: blackletter | blackletter writing style and: en: pigpen cipher | pigpen cipher.

The writing style of comic strips changed as well after the war.

His explicit writing style has shocked many readers.

Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.

While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen's style.

Paul sometimes uses a style of writing common in his time called a " diatribe ".

In political and historical writing Niccolò Machiavelli and his friend Francesco Guicciardini initiated a new realistic style of writing.

The printing technology affected the style of writing.

The lower-case Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes to permit a faster, more convenient cursive writing style with the use of ink and quill.

Moore's essays are known for their clear, circumspect writing style, and for he is known for his methodical and patient approach to philosophical problems.

His acting troupe, The Queens Players, have produced 6 mainstage productions of Grand Guignol plays, and Mazda is writing new plays in the classic Guignol style.

However, as their company remit also includes encouraging new writing, they have also staged several new plays in the Grand-Guignol style, including " Eating For Two ", " Penalty " and " Ways and Means ".

Differences of chronology, " style ", and theology suggest that the author of Luke-Acts was not familiar with Paul's distinctive theology but instead was writing a decade or more after his death, by which point significant harmonization between different traditions within Early Christianity had occurred.

For instance, the writing style is different, the author for reasons of humility refers to himself instead as " the disciple whom Jesus loved ," while John in Revelations refers to himself as John at least five times.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

Such characters, with their low existence and often low morality, produce humorous effects in his novels and tales, as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris, but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; ;

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

She had dug a hole for each bulb, each tree wore a tag with her writing on it ; ;

Two entries in The Early Life support the assumption that during this period Hardy had virtually suspended the writing of poetry.

Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Thomas ' pound sterling | £ 5 writing shed in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire

Thomas acquired a garage a hundred yards from the house on a cliff ledge which he turned into his writing shed, and where he penned several of his most acclaimed poems.

Thomas ' writing shed is also preserved.

He was persuaded that Anne's writing shed light into the experiences of many of those who suffered persecution under Nazis and was urged to consider publishing it.

Also, they shed light on the Goth kids, they talk about writing the scene in the locker room with Kyle telling Stan he should hang with the Goth kids, and after that they decided that they wanted to actually see that.

The work of Jean Rychner on the art of the minstrels and the work of Parry and Lord on Yugoslavian oral traditional poetry, Homeric verse and oral composition have also been suggested to shed light on the oral composition of the chansons, although this view is not without its critics who maintain the importance of writing not only in the preservation of the texts, but also in their composition, especially for the more sophisticated poems.

Dahl began using them, along with yellow lined legal pads, whilst living in the U. S, and upon returning home to the U. K had them specially shipped over for use in his writing shed at his home in Buckinghamshire.

In July 1990, Liebman shed a lifetime of closeted living after writing a coming-out letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., who was then editor-in-chief of the National Review.

From a different perspective, Irving E. Fang ( 1997 ) identified six ' Information Revolutions ': writing, printing, mass media, entertainment, the ' tool shed ' ( which we call ' home ' now ), and the Information Highway.

With insight and learning ( and his war-time experience ) Zaehner shed light on key issues in contemporary spiritual life, writing abundantly.

The San Francisco Examiner concluded that “ Few books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future ”, and Peter Ackroyd, writing in The Times of London, called the book “ A history as fascinating as it is instructive .”