There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.

In addition, the symphony also emerged from other pieces by Beethoven that, while completed works in their own right, are also in some sense sketches for the future symphony.

* The poem " Be Angry at the Sun " by Robinson Jeffers includes the line " You are not Catullus, you know, To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar.

Bits are the clown's sketches or routines made up of one or more gags either worked out and timed before going on stage or impromptu bits composed of familiar improvisational material.

Because these vary considerably, and because only a few sketches are known to have been drawn from live specimens, its exact appearance remains a mystery.

The art could range from simple sketches, to reproductions of large elaborate works painted in oil or acrylic, though most are created in ink.

Presented as five-minute sketches, many machinima comedies are analogous to Internet Flash animations.

" In line with Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama and preliminary sketches of the Arcades Project, Adorno likened philosophical interpretation to experiments which should be conducted " until they arrive at figurations in which the answers are legible, while the questions themselves vanish.

Among the mechanical devices Villard sketched are a perpetual-motion machine, a water-driven saw, a number of automata, lifting devices, war engines ( a trebuchet ) as well as a number of anatomical and geometric sketches for portraiture and architecture.

He often made sketches and drafts ; unlike Beethoven's these are mostly not preserved, as his wife sought to destroy them after his death.

The hand drawn sketches of views and rough maps of walks together with the descriptive nature of the walks are like those of the Wainwright guides to the Lake District ( see Lakeland Guides ).

There are however indications of some later unfulfilled operatic projects, which survive as parts or sketches of libretti, such as Il ritorno dell ' amore by Renato Simoni, Malena by Ettore Moschino, and La rosa di Pompei, also by Moschino ( dated " Naples, 20 May 1924 ").

These sketches are often incorrectly considered the precedent to modern manga, as Hokusai's Manga is a collection of sketches ( of animals, people, objects, etc.

There have been several attempts to complete these sketches and prepare them for performance, as well as completions of his later sketches for an instrumental Finale, but only the first three movements of the symphony are usually performed.

Most Raphael drawings are rather precise — even initial sketches with naked outline figures are carefully drawn, and later working drawings often have a high degree of finish, with shading and sometimes highlights in white.

They lack the freedom and energy of some of Leonardo's and Michelangelo's sketches, but are nearly always aesthetically very satisfying.

Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

A superficial reading gives the impression that they are sketches of village or suburban life, and comedies of manners, studying the social activities connected with the Anglican church ( in particular its the Anglo-Catholic parish.

Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and / or visual medium such as broadcasting.

In another article, Georgia's Empress and Women Soldiers, she wrote short sketches of four notable Georgia women.

As well as being a successful comedy act, Julian and Sandy were notable for being two camp homosexual characters in mainstream entertainment at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the UK, and for the use of the Polari language in the sketches.

Arguably the most notable example of his work with John Bird is their series of satirical sketches The Long Johns, in which one of the Johns interviews the other in the guise of a senior figure such as a politician, businessman or government consultant, in one episode which they were two of the very first to predict the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 during an episode of The South Bank Show broadcast on 14 October 2007.

However, several notable British actors and comedians appear alongside Atkinson in sketches as various one-off supporting characters, including Richard Briers, Angus Deayton, Nick Hancock, Paul Bown, Caroline Quentin, Danny La Rue, Roger Lloyd Pack, David Schneider and Richard Wilson.

The picture has notable errors and was clearly done from memory and rough sketches.

These films were candid camera sketches and Schuster made many more of these films as well as slap-stick films, the most notable of which was Mr Bones.

Among his notable sketches are " Lazy Sunday ", a rap video he shot with Andy Samberg about buying cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia, and " More Cowbell ".

It is notable that one of his sketches for the movement includes the subtitle " Medley on the Campus Fence ," referring to the songs popular among Yale students during his college years.

Their most notable appearance was in " The Buzz Aldrin Show " episode where they introduced sketches about architects, insurance, chemists, and the end of the show.

There are various comedy sketches between musical numbers: The most notable sketches are " Elvis Drugs ", " Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority ", " The Tragically Hip " ( which was the inspiration for the name of the Canadian band and was featured as a pretaped sketch on a season six episode of Saturday Night Live ), " Large Detroit Car Company ", " Mariachi Translations ", recurring comic blackouts that ended with the catchphrase " Just to prove a point!

The following is a partial list of notable roles Armisen has played in Saturday Night Live sketches.

Other notable celebrities in the sketches included Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James, Charlie Munger, Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen.

Rawlings is most notable for frequently appearing in sketches on Chappelle's Show and hosting the third season along with Charlie Murphy.

To that journal he contributed a very notable series of biographical sketches on " Eminent Canadians.

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

He left at his death sketches, drawn to scale, for the rest of the circle.

Serving in his capacity as honorary chairman, Capp made public appearances on its behalf for years, contributed free artwork for its annual fund-raising appeals, and entertained crippled and paraplegic children in children's hospitals with inspirational pep talks, humorous stories and sketches.

The ghostly music may have had its roots in sketches for a Macbeth opera that Beethoven was contemplating at the time.

Most of the sketches on the CD were remade for Jam.

" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.

The sketches for Magic in Medicine and Modern Medicine were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's " New Horizons in American Art ".

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

Newsprint and typing paper may be useful for practice and rough sketches.

McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.

Abbey began as an illustrator, producing numerous illustrations and sketches for such magazines as Harper's Weekly and Scribner's Magazine.

" Munch's nude paintings from this period survive only in sketches, except for Standing Nude ( 1887 ), perhaps confiscated by his father.

Fellini and Ruggero Maccari, also on the staff of Marc ’ Aurelio, began writing radio sketches and gags for films.

A gifted caricaturist, much of the inspiration for his sketches was derived from his own dreams while the films-in-progress both originated from and stimulated drawings for characters, decor, costumes and set designs.

Some of these sketches may even be shown to a client for early stage approval, before the designer develops the idea further using a computer and graphic design software tools.

In David Morgan's book Monty Python Speaks, Cleese asserted that Chapman, although officially his co-writer for many of their sketches, contributed comparatively little in the way of direct writing.

Like Laugh-In, the show minimized production costs by taping all of the recurring sketches for a season in batches — setting up for the Cornfield one day, the Joke Fence another, etc.

One " Giger Bar " sprang up in Tokyo, but the realization of his designs were a great disappointment to the artist, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his final designs, but decided to barrel ahead with nothing more than Giger's rough preliminary sketches.

The area and the people inspired him and provided the backdrop for his best-known short stories, the Oom Schalk Lourens series ( featuring an older character named " Oom Schalk Lourens "), and the Voorkamer sketches.

Hypnotism has also been employed by artists for creative purposes most notably the surrealist circle of André Breton who employed hypnosis, automatic writing and sketches for creative purposes.