In several titles and elsewhere Niven employs terms that are double entendre in that they are apparently metaphorical, but are in fact, meant to be taken literally, or sometimes vice versa.

David Niven had, in fact, been Ian Fleming's preference for the part of James Bond, Eon Productions, however, chose Sean Connery for their series.

The film also stars Shaun Smyth as Virgil Niven, a Scottish botanist who befriends Blank for his knowledge of South African flora, but may in fact have his own sexual interest in Blank.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

The fact that Jess's horse had not been returned to its stall could indicate that Diane's information had been wrong, but Curt didn't interpret it this way.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

Even earlier than that he had resented the fact that I had been chosen to edit the club's Reporter.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

Place-names, in fact, had been extensively utilized for this purpose from the time of Camden onwards.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

In fact, he had raised quetzal birds in his camp in the forest of Ecuador.

In fact, however, both principles have always been nebulous and loosely defined.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

`` Mr. Gross, concerning the formation of your Committee, there's the fact that you have been a legal adviser to the U.N. in the past ; ;

some Jews have in fact been all things to all men.

In the market place Jews have in fact under various circumstances been valued customers and suppliers, or clannish monopolists and cutthroat competitors.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, through intellectual toughness, perception, through experience in fact, have obviously liberated themselves from any sentimental Krim self-indulgence they might have been tempted to.

But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

in fact, with having been against all the more popular features of the Khrushchev `` welfare state ''.

In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.

They seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

The only clues to his identity are the trademark white cat, similar clothes to his previous onscreen appearances, the dialogue indicating that he and Bond have met before, and the fact that the scene begins with Bond paying his respects to Tracy, often considered by the producers as a means of providing an " immediate continuity link " in the event of a new actor taking the part of Bond ( although this was Roger Moore's fifth appearance as Bond ).

Being approached by Reitz, Schreiner objected to the fact that the Bond aimed ultimately to overthrow British rule and remove the British flag from South Africa.

Academic Jeremy Black agrees, although points out that the Bond and Leiter relationship suggested " a far smoother working of the Anglo-American alliance than was in fact the case.

On more than one occasion, in fact, characters explicitly disparage the fictitious Bond and the romanticized view of the intelligence business that some amateurs and outsiders have.

In the James Bond novel From Russia, with Love, Ian Fleming claims that Rosa Klebb-the book's main villain-had been Nin's co-worker and mistress between 1935 and 1937, while in fact being an agent of the OGPU ; that it was she who murdered him, on orders from Moscow ; and that it was this coup which put her on the road to high power within the Soviet espionage apparatus and eventual confrontation with James Bond.

In 1957, George F. Bond began the Genesis project at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory proving that humans could in fact withstand prolonged exposure to different breathing gases and increased environmental pressures.

" The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying " The action's good, the photography excellent, the sets decent ; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a man with the right stuff.

The most famous and best selling ( to date ) toy car of all, James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 ( 261 ) from the film Goldfinger, was issued in October 1965 and despite the fact that the casting of the new James Bond car was based heavily on the earlier Aston Martin DB4 model from 1960, it was the special features that marked out this model.

The governor then reveals that the dinner companions whom Bond found so boring were in fact Rhoda and her rich Canadian husband.

The critic for The Times reflected that " the mood of For Your Eyes Only is, in fact, a good deal more sober and, perhaps, weary than before "; the critic also thought that the short form worked well with Bond, and that " the girls, though a short story allows them only walk-on parts, are as wild and luscious as ever ".

In addition to this, graphically most users have also positively commented on the fact that James Bond and Pierce Brosnan look and move so much alike.

While portraying a Bond girl has not always indicated continued success as an actress, Adams comments, " Looking back on it, how can you not really enjoy the fact that you were a Bond Girl?

Also unlike Bond he is not a bed-hopper ; in fact it is Smiley's wife Ann who is notorious for her affairs.

Benson is the first American to write James Bond novels, a fact that was initially controversial.

In 1985 he had written an unofficial James Bond novel, The Killing Zone, which — although purporting to be officially sanctioned by Glidrose, Bond's literary copyright holder — was in fact a vanity novel .< ref >

He is about 35 ( he is also perhaps the only Fleming villain younger than Bond, the fact hinted in the novel ); and has light blue eyes.

" The author is in fact Ian Fleming and the estate, Goldeneye, where Fleming wrote every James Bond novel till his death in 1964.

In fact, Glidrose Publications considered John Pearson's becoming the new, series writer ; despite good reviews and sales of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, nothing happened.