Literary quotations are provided at the start of each chapter and it is insightful that for " Single Combat ", the chapter detailing the cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan by Clarence Darrow, that De Camp chose a quotation from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass where Alice and the Queen talk about believing impossible things.

His humorous, scathing and insightful perceptions of those who swirl past the main characters has great comedic value.

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.

In his insightful depiction of everyday Roman life, Petronius delights in exposing the vulgarity and pretentiousness of the illiterate and ostentatious millionaires of his age.

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.

His theoretical works, such as the essays " Das Werden im Vergehen " (" Becoming in Dissolution ") and " Urteil und Sein " (" Judgement and Being ") are insightful and important if somewhat tortuous and difficult to parse.

In this phase, women are viewed as capable of worldly success and of being self-reliant, intelligent and insightful, even if not altogether virtuous.

Araman is resigned to the exposure of the chronoscope, and leaves the three academics with the insightful line: " Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell forever.

As X-Catholics obsessed with a guilt they can't accept and committed to a subculture that gives them no peace, Exene and John Doe are prey to both misconceptions, and their struggle with them is thrilling and edifying ... Who knows whether the insightful ministrations of their guitarist will prove as therapeutic for them as for you and me, but I say trust a bohemian bearing gifts.

The songs were by turns " poignant, insightful and honest ," and Shepard, " deeply moved " by what he heard, encouraged Ayers to record them properly for a possible new album.

Late in 2002, The San Francisco Chronicle included The Aislers Set in its list of " Young Artists on the Verge ," writing: " The Aislers Set's reinvention of ' 60s pop resurrects walls of garage guitars and rich, Spector-esque sound, insouciance combined with insightful lyrics.

Commentators called the book " humorous and insightful ," showing the human side of the PGA Tour.

After the success of " If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body ," the brothers continued with a run of country hits, including tunes such as the fun-loving " Redneck Girl "; serious ballads like " Santa Fe " and the insightful social commentary pieces, " Old Hippie " and " Kids of the Baby Boom.

Xaudaró's observations on contemporary culture and technology, as well as his gentle but insightful sense of humor, are apparent in such cartoons as " El telégrafo sin hilos ," " Un retrato futurista ," " El auto que pasa ," " Despertar en Biarritz ," " El leopardo inglés en Spyon-Kop.

Film critic Dennis Schwartz called the film, " A low rent version of the film noir Laura ," and added, " It was a snappy film that makes the most of its murder investigation with insightful looks at the lives of those on the fringe associated with Hollywood.

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

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 critical consensus is " The Breakfast Club is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers ".

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.

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.

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

Spike is intelligent, insightful and a skilled analyst.

James wrote many valuable critical articles on other novelists ; typical is his insightful book-length study of his American predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne.

It is considered one of Schlesinger's best films and an insightful satire of mid-sixties British culture.

Tomlin's humor is often sharp and insightful in the traditions of standup comedians, but also frequently endearing, slightly wacky, and generally quite " family friendly " in the tradition of television comediennes such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Eve Arden.

Colet ’ s speech is both direct and insightful.

She is very protective of Lord Marchmain and is forthright and insightful in her relationship with Charles.

The existence of eigenfunctions is typically the most insightful way to analyze.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review commented that the " constant, unadulterated " hipster-technocrat, cyber-MTV " lingo overdone and inappropriate " On the technology, Cory Doctorow found Gibson's use of watermarks and keystroke logging to be hollow and has noted that " Gibson is no technologist, he's an accomplished and insightful social critic ... and he treats these items from the real world as metaphor.

Reviewers of Progress have generally found it insightful and worth reading, although a lesser literary achievement than " No Context.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

In 1992, he co-authored ( with Bud Shrake ) Harvey Penick's Little Red Book ; filled with insightful, easily understood anecdotes, it became the highest selling golf book ever published.