Although the story is mostly a serious, insightful depiction of the subject, humor ( mostly subtle ) is present in the writing.

Writing was her outlet, and she wrote with an insightful perception about the realities of life.

* 2001: Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe, " for her insightful observations on contemporary life and literature.

The insightful quotation, " It's a great life, if you don't weaken ," is famously attributed to Buchan, as is, " No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated.

Somerset Place offers an insightful view of plantation life during the antebellum period.

MacIntyre has argued that Aquinas ' synthesis of Augustinianism with Aristotelianism is more insightful than modern moral theories by focusing upon the telos (' end ', or completion ) of a social practice and of a human life, within the context of which the morality of acts may be evaluated.

* Contains an insightful account of McAlmon's life.

He published a chatty and insightful memoir about his life, entitled Desert Warrior, that revealed many secrets about the first Gulf War — such as the fact that Israel alerted its nuclear-armed missile forces after Iraq started firing Scuds at Tel Aviv both to warn the Iraqis not to use chemical warheads and to press Washington to do more to hunt Scuds in western Iraq.

Together with Jack Archer, Guran instructs the Phantom in combat, morality, and life itself, and is frequently seen reciting insightful " old jungle sayings " to Kit and others.

Lacing his anecdotes with persuasive arguments for the freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness in all its sinful forms, he takes readers on a journey that's as insightful as it is hilarious.

James placed " The Beast in the Jungle " at the head of volume 17 of the New York Edition ( 1907 – 1909 ) of his fiction, along with another insightful examination of life and death, " The Altar of the Dead.

Timothy generally appears to be very calm and insightful in his young age.

Despite her small age, she is prone to making surprisingly insightful remarks to many of her elders.

In golf, a caddy ( or caddie ) is the person who carries a player's bag and clubs, and gives insightful advice and moral support.

Andrzej Wajda's films offer insightful analyses of the universal element of the Polish experience-the struggle to maintain dignity under the most trying circumstances.

In Antioch, over the course of twelve years, John gained popularity because of the eloquence of his public speaking, especially his insightful expositions of Bible passages and moral teaching.

Upperstall. com wrote " Madhuri gives a wonderful insightful performance as the self-respecting educated woman married into a family of male chauvanistic upper class landlords and who is humiliated by her husband when she objects to his misdeeds, never hitting a false note.

The proofs of these properties are both interesting and insightful.

Known for penning concept suites and songs inspired by literature, music fan opinions of his writing have varied greatly, running the gamut from cerebral and insightful to pretentious and preachy.

Joshi suggests that King's strengths as a writer include the accessible " everyman " quality of his prose, and his unfailingly insightful observations about the pains and joys of adolescence.

A suitable definition of the entropy of a small local region depends on the physically insightful and judicious selection of the independent local non-equilibrium macroscopic state variables, and different selections provide different generalized or extended thermodynamical accounts of one and the same given physical process.

In Ancient Greece, Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), as founder of Greek historiography., presents insightful and lively discussions of the customs, geography, and history of Mediterranean peoples, particularly the Egyptians.

She is good-natured and frank and often makes insightful comments on the inconsistencies and insincerities of people around her, usually to Henry Tilney, and thus is unintentionally sarcastic and funny.

Instead, extensive experimentation with the tablebases – combined with an intensive study of tablebase-answers to well designed problems, and with knowledge of prior art ( i. e. pre-tablebase knowledge ) – is used to yield insightful patterns.

He was also adapted into a character in Orson Scott Card's alternate history series The Tales of Alvin Maker ; he is presented as a crude but deeply witty and insightful man.

Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary.

It takes Raymond Dufayel's insightful friendship to give her the courage to overcome her shyness and finally meet with Nino, resulting in a night spent together and the beginnings of a relationship.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s insightful and powerful imaging techniques were discovered that would further help advance our understanding of the health risks associated with body fat accumulation.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

"), and then presented data and analysis written in a lively, insightful, and witty style that offered an answer.

As an author, she kept her public image as a charismatic, mysterious old Baroness with an insightful third eye, and established herself as an inspiring figure in Danish culture, although shunning the mainstream.

This is a quick insightful unplanned response to situations and environmental interaction.

Spike is intelligent, insightful and a skilled analyst.

Another development in the nineteenth century was the treatment of historical subjects, often on a large scale, with the values of genre painting, the depiction of scenes of everyday life, and anecdote.

When art critic Franz Roh applied the term magic realism to visual art in 1925, he was designating a style of visual art that brings extreme realism to the depiction of mundane subject matter, revealing an " interior " mystery, rather than imposing external, overtly magical features onto this everyday reality.

A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience.

Louis le Nain was an important exponent of genre painting in 17th-century France, where the 18th century would bring a heightened interest in the depiction of everyday life, whether through the romanticized paintings of Watteau and Fragonard, or the careful realism of Chardin.

History painting itself shifted from the exclusive depiction of events of great public importance to the depiction of genre scenes in historical times, both the private moments of great figures, and the everyday life of ordinary people.

After the kylixes were formed, an artisan drew a depiction of an event from Greek mythology or everyday life with a diluted glaze on the outer surface of the formation.

Polke ’ s early work has often been characterised as European Pop art for its depiction of everyday subject matter-sausages, bread and potatoes-combined with images from the mass media.

Noticing After his brother's interest in his depiction of everyday life in Brazil, he started to sketch street scenes, local costumes and relations of the Brazilians in the period between 1816 and 1831.

In Life in the Iron Mills, the two genres are blended to create a realistic depiction of the everyday life of iron mill worker Hugh Wolfe, as well as illustrate the effects of that environment on him.

Therefore, the depiction of everyday life was inevitably distorted from episode two onwards by the fact that the subjects were on television every week ( students outside the programme criticised it for being completely untrue compared to real life as a student ).

Later the narrative element of Yamato-e, the interest in the depiction of everyday life, and the choice of oblique and partial views in a composition heavily influenced the ukiyo-e ( 浮世絵 ) style, as well as the Nihonga ( 日本画 ).

The nationalists were offended by the artist ’ s depiction of the Russian soul as a cartoonish creature with clichéd attributes of Russian everyday life — a bottle of vodka, a model of Sputnik — and by the crudely painted text in Welcome that indicts the Russian character as simultaneously overaggressive and alarmingly God-fearing.

In this they differed from Northern Europeans, specifically Dutch painters, who had a strong tradition in the depiction of everyday activities.

The subject matter that is widely regarded as most characteristic of Japanese painting, and later printmaking, is the depiction of scenes from everyday life and narrative scenes that are often crowded with figures and detail.