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It was fantastic writing, beautiful writing, the man declared, but the public, he insisted, wanted realism.
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Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
With Ritter he was exposed to the fantastic profusion of ideas that stormed through his host's fertile but disorganized mind.
It was a fantastic story.
Alexandre Livshitz repeated a fantastic technical bit from the closing number, `` Taras Bulba '', but even then there was a substantial number of diehards who seemed determined not to go home at all.
It was fantastic to turn from the seven men in shackles to the wardroom, where a class of apprentices awaited him.
She was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic.
Hergé chose a subject that was as fantastic as possible rather than issues related to the crisis of the times to avoid trouble with the censors.
" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.
Online wrote that Gellar was " awesome " and " fantastic ", TV Line remarked she " does a fine job " as both characters and USA Today found her performance " well-defined ".
His playing style was flawed, as he tried to create fantastic combinations over the board, rather than simplifying and going for the win.
Literary critic Richard Ellmann writes: Wilde does not name the book but at his trial he conceded that it was, or almost, Huysmans's A Rebours ... To a correspondent he wrote that he had played a ' fantastic variation ' upon A Rebours and some day must write it down.
He is a fantastic swimmer and was the first person to swim across the English Channel on a bet.
Ponzi was bringing in cash at a fantastic rate, but the simplest financial analysis would have shown that the operation was running at a large loss.
Barron observed that though Ponzi was offering fantastic returns on investments, Ponzi himself was not investing with his own company.
While the Xbox and GameCube versions also received generally positive reviews ( the Xbox version was described as " truly fantastic " and " the best Star Wars experience on the Xbox " and the GameCube version as " worth spending time with "), their aggregated scores were not as strong as the PC and Macintosh versions '.
Der Marineoffizier ended with the claim that combating " Jewish materialism " were one of the good officer's principle duties, and this was best done by making "... Germans energetic and thankful followers of the Führer ", and help them "... understand that the Führer also had to use a heavy hand ... in order to accomplish his fantastic aim ".
Upon receiving the knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 1 December 2005, he said he was " humbled " by the " fantastic tribute ".
" He further explained, " It was a fantastic journey.
Novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, " Charles Beaumont was one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre.
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Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
It is notable that at this time he was writing with admiration of Cimabue's and Poussin's way of filling space.
Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.
By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.
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.
Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.
Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.
`` You are the ' Peoples' Poet ' '' was her appraisal in 1908, and she stopped teaching and writing to devote herself to the fulfillment of her husband's career.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.
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.
The careless writing was in keeping with his mood of savage discontent.
It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.
Since writing was practiced in the Aegean before the end of the century, we may hope that the details of tradition will now be occasionally useful.
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.
was and beautiful
`` The snake was beautiful, wasn't it ''??
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
`` Billie was really beautiful ''!!
Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.
To most of those who composed the Amen corner it was a magnificent and beautiful experience, something for which they lived from week to week.
She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.
His captain was thin and haggard and his beautiful boots were worn and shabby.
All she did was write me a pleasant little note about how it was beautiful while it lasted but that now life had parted our ways and it was goodbye forever.
The most beautiful bed of pansies I've seen was in a South Dakota yard on a sizzling day.
One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.
I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.
The beautiful, the satisfying part of his disintegration, however, was the masterly way the Buddha polished him off.
It, along with Nara, was untouched by the war -- and is now a beautiful example of the loveliness of prewar Japan.
Well, you say, those are beautiful words all right, but it was easy for the psalmist to sing them in his day.
it was even beautiful.
Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged -- which was the way I felt about her `` Come Rain or Come Shine '' -- and sometimes they were just plain magnificent, like her shatteringly beautiful `` Beautiful Weather ''.
And this was before he began to play his startlingly beautiful jazz.
The result was like that of a beautiful painting with some of the highlights touched up almost to the point of garishness.
She was so beautiful, so valiant, so pitiable.
How strange it was that he could give her this handsome house and carte blanche as to its beautiful furnishings, and fail her in -- spiritual ways.
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