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' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.
With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".
Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " for all his record sales ( over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone ), existed essentially on loose change.
Visiting galleries in Geneva and the Brücke Museum in Berlin, Bowie became, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " a prolific producer and collector of contemporary art.
As Whale biographer James Curtis wrote, the play " managed to coalesce, at the right time and in the right manner, the impressions of a whole generation of men who were in the war and who had found it impossible, through words or deeds, to adequately express to their friends and families what the trenches had been like ".
Once released, the full body of official evidence against Beria, in the words of Stalin biographer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, " reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.
In the words of his biographer John MacAloon, " The last of his lineage, Pierre de Coubertin was the only member of it whose fame would outlive him.
The long title poem contains, in the words of his biographer R. F.
At about this time, Novello had an affair with the writer Siegfried Sassoon ; it was short lived, but in the words of Sassoon's biographer John Stuart Roberts, Novello " was a consummate flirt who collected lovers as he gathered lilacs.
However, in the words of his biographer John Campbell, " he breached with Mosley as soon as Mosley breached with the Labour Party ".
Marlborough's apologists though, including his most notable descendant and biographer Winston Churchill, have been at pains to attribute patriotic, religious, and moral motives to his action ; but in the words of Chandler, it is difficult to absolve Marlborough of ruthlessness, ingratitude, intrigue and treachery against a man to whom he owed virtually everything in his life and career to date.
Pius ' funeral ceremonies were, in the words of the biographer, " elaborate ".
Muir biographer Steven Holmes notes that Muir used words like " glory " and " glorious " to suggest that light was taking on a religious dimension: " It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the notion of glory in Muir's published writings, where no other single image carries more emotional or religious weight ," adding that his words " exactly parallels its Hebraic origins ," in which biblical writings often indicate a divine presence with light, as in the burning bush or pillar of fire, and described as " the glory of God.
Critic Jack Sullivan has kinder words for Tiomkin's score for Strangers than does biographer Spoto: " o seamlessly and inevitably does it fit the picture's design that it seems like an element of Hitchcock's storyboards ", he writes It is a score that " goes largely uncelebrated.
For the " Democratic Faction ", the party that propagated cultural Zionism ( founded in 1901 by Chaim Weizmann ), he served in the words of his biographer, Steve Zipperstein, " as a symbol for the movement's culturalists, the faction's most coherent totem.
Poussin's biographer, André Félibien, interpreted it to mean that " the person buried in this tomb has lived in Arcadia "; in other words, that the person too once enjoyed the pleasures of life on earth.
By the middle of the 1750s he was, in the words of his biographer Dale Monson, " the most popular opera composer anywhere ".
" According to Geisel biographer Philip Nel, Geisel threatened to sue a pro-life group for using his words on their stationery.
After Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933, Blatchford " began to smell brimstone ", in the words of his biographer.
In 1973, a biographer paid for a new headstone with the words, John Porteous, a Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard, murdered 7 September 1736-All passion spent.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— described what his main issue with Fleming's work was: " his basic weakness as a storyteller, which can be summed up in two words: ' no story.
In the words of biographer Lee Hill, Southern spent the next six years in " an Olympian realm of glamour, money, constant motion and excitement ", mixing and working with the biggest literary, film, music, and TV stars in the world.
Brown had first sung Dies natalis in 1952 under the composer's baton, and his interpretation in the recording is described by Finzi's biographer, Diana McVeagh, as " among his finest: intelligent, poetic, and informed with his acute but gentle feeling for words.

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In noting that neologisms are of immense value to the continued existence of a living language, and that most words are developed as neologisms from root words, Pei stated in The Story of Language:
According to Pei Songzhi's annotation in Chen Shou's Records of Three Kingdoms, Gao Shun, from Shang Dang, was a stern and incorrupt man, with an air of authority and few words.

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The full implementation of these noble words, however, has taken the efforts of five sessions of the Legislature.
IBM has a machine that can understand spoken words and talk back.
It won't develop until he has words with which to clothe it.
No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are their sole staple in trade.
Nothing in English has been ridiculed as much as the ambiguous use of words, unless it be the ambiguous use of sentences.
They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.
The Iliad has two words for the shield, ASPIS and SAKOS.
By saying `` another emotional death '', she reveals that there has been a previous one, although she has not described it in words.
However, readers who accept Freud's findings and believe that he has solved completely the mystery of dreams, should ponder over the following words in his Interpretation Of Dreams, Chapter 1::
-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.
Most surprising of all, he has accomplished some prodigies in training for the production of words.
In the wider sense, an alphabet is a script that is segmental at the phoneme level — that is, it has separate glyphs for individual sounds and not for larger units such as syllables or words.
At the other extreme are languages such as English, where the spelling of many words simply has to be memorized as they do not correspond to sounds in a consistent way.
The key words here are fair and eventually-if characters ' ranks are close, and the weaker character has obtained some advantage, then the weaker character can escape defeat or perhaps prevail.
* God purposely exercises his sovereignty in ways that do not illustrate its extent – in other words, He has the power and authority to predetermine salvation but he chooses to apply it through different means.
The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".
For example, an array of 10 integer variables, with indices 0 through 9, may be stored as 10 words at memory addresses 2000, 2004, 2008, … 2036, so that the element with index i has the address 2000 + 4 × i.
* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.
In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun – " the car " – remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.
In the words of the Nobel Committee ’ s citation: " In a convincing manner Sakharov has emphasised that Man's inviolable rights provide the only safe foundation for genuine and enduring international cooperation.
Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.
In other words, the symbol " " has a specific and universal mathematical meaning, but just the " A " by itself does not.
The individualists position has tended to lead to the view that later changes in the words of ballads are corruptions of an original text.

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