The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Despite obvious parallels and relationships, video art is not experimental film.

The obvious parallels seen in the glorification of the banlieue and that of one's " hood " is not one to overlook.

She was a member of Cardiff's small Jewish community ; and associated themes were a central concern of much of her writing, including Brothers ( 1983 ), where parallels with her own ancestry are obvious: it follows four generations of a family which flees Russia for South Wales.

There are obvious parallels here with the early bureaucratic structures in modern states, such as the Office of Works or the Navy in 18th century England, where again appointments depended on patronage and were often bought and sold.

Literary critic Darrell Schweitzer, however, comments that The Cats of Ulthar resembles Dunsany in " mood and execution " only and that " has no obvious parallels in any Dunsany story ".

The parallels to the Fitzgeralds were obvious.

Sinbad hatches a plan to blind the beast ( again, obvious parallels with the story of Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey ), with the two red-hot iron spits with which the monster has been kebabing and roasting the ship's company.

There are also some minor but obvious parallels to the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express, which is based on an Agatha Christie novel.

The story, about a much older man and a teenager whom he gradually realises is no longer a child but a young woman with mature emotions and sexuality had obvious parallels to Granger's and Simmons's own lives.

The concepts of imprisoning a supernatural being in a bottle by a magically marked cork, and of forcing him to grant wishes in return of his liberty, have obvious parallels in the story of Aladdin from the Arabian Nights.

The parallels between the story of ‘ Anat and her revenge on Mot for the killing of her brother are obvious.

Cyclo-cross has some obvious parallels with mountain bike racing, cross-country cycling and criterium racing.

* This episode also contains obvious parallels to Robert Heinlein's " Stranger In A Strange Land " and the character of Valentine Michael Smith.

With obvious parallels to her own activities, she describes her vision for the piece: " Il s ' agit d ' exprimer la puissance de la femme.

The setting is large and sweeping, with obvious parallels to the time period of the First Crusade.

There are obvious parallels between Stoppard and his main character: both are middle-aged playwrights known for their exact use of language ; both express doubts about Marxism and the politics of the left and both undertake work outside the theatre to keep up their comfortable lifestyles and pay alimony to their wives.

The parallels between Christie and Sawney Bean are obvious and insistent.

( There are obvious parallels to be drawn with Joyce's own life-Joyce and Nora Barnacle lived, unmarried, in Trieste, during the years the fictional Rowans were living in Rome, while Robert Hand is roughly the same age of Joyce's friends Oliver St. John Gogarty and Vincent Cosgrave, and shares some characteristics with them both.

The striking parallels between Matobo and Zimbabwe provoked a reaction from the Zimbabwean government ; Acting Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende said the film had " obvious connections " and that the Hollywood film was part of a " CIA plot " to discredit the Southern African nation.

Although the King Features strip was an obvious knock-off with several similar parallels, the approach was quite different, and Little Annie Rooney had a successful run from 1927 to 1966.

Other than raï, cumbia villera also has obvious parallels with gangsta rap in the United States, the rhythms of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, like baile funk, the explosion of punk rock and ska in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s, and the emergence of bad-boy reggae in 1960s Jamaica.

One fact, presented in Kelley's dissertation, about the etymology of the term in this context: Dr. Kelley did originally have a definition for the “ OZ ” acronym ( aside from the obvious parallels with the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ).

Mulvey posits in her notes to the Criterion Collection DVD of Michael Powell's controversial film Peeping Tom that the cinema spectator ’ s own voyeurism is made shockingly obvious and even more shockingly, the spectator identifies with the perverted protagonist.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

It is obvious he had become a stranger to the Roman people, and had most likely even become an inconvenience to his own followers.

While many structuralists first thought that they could tease out an author's intention by close scrutiny, they soon argued that textual analysis discovered so many disconnections that it was obvious that their own experiences lent a view that was unique to them.

When McKay finds out about Julie, for whom his own feelings have been becoming increasingly obvious, he rides to the Hannassey place with Ramon.

The genus Symbion are peculiar microscopic animals, with no obvious close relatives, and which was therefore given its own phylum, called Cycliophora.

While his career as a critic and writer provided him with a comfortable income, and he had an obvious talent for writing, he came to detest the amount of time spent attending performances to review, as it severely limited his free time to promote his own composition and produce more compositions.

Under such conditions, it is fairly obvious that scientific research may have political consequences, and the Boasians saw no conflict between their scientific attempts to understand other cultures, and the political implications of critiquing their own culture.

Sometimes called the " Congressional Compensation Amendment of 1789 ", the " Congressional Pay Amendment ", and the " Madison Amendment ", it was intended to serve as a restraint on the power of Congress to set its own salary — an obvious potential for conflict of interest.

" is the more obvious and desperate foundling ", Elliott " suffers in his own way from the want of a home.

That Barker and Beban are able to create so much sympathy for Beppo, despite their own, occasionally quite obvious condescension to the character, is a mark of emerging maturity in the movie business ; no longer are films dealing in one-dimensional ' types.

As obvious from Umar's own statement regarding his father during his later political rule, Umar said, " My father Al-Khittab was a ruthless man.

With obvious humorous overtones, they claimed a prevailing problem of the new technological age was the willingness of people to accept theories " on blind faith and to reject the evidence of their own senses.

" and then, to his own obvious astonishment, to add, " I'll miss him.

Just as Sophie is left conflicted by her father's attitudes towards Poland's Jews, Stingo analyzes his own culpability derived from his family's slave-holding past, eventually deciding to write a book about Nat Turner – an obvious parallel to Styron's own controversial novel The Confessions of Nat Turner.

That evening on the Pont des Arts represents, for Clamence, the collision of his true self with his inflated self-image, and the final realization of his own hypocrisy becomes painfully obvious.

Through this feedback, it became obvious that S & Ts readership included many of the avid wargamers-over 50 % of readers claimed to own 100 or more games ; many bought a dozen games every year on top of those contained in the magazine.

However, in the course of his two terms of office, Klestil's alienation from his own party became increasingly obvious, so much so that there was open antagonism between Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel and Klestil when, in 2000, the latter had to swear in the newly formed coalition government with Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party.

With less money for their own productions, a gameshow seemed the obvious idea for ITV.

Folklorist Hazen likewise offers his own alleged eyewitness testimony of these creatures, which appeared in an academically praised and peer-reviewed publication, describing an occasion he found " a parted cable which bore obvious tooth marks in spite of the fact that the break occurred in a most inaccessible part of the plane.