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work and touches
Although Virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of Latin literature.
In Kandinsky ’ s work some characteristics are obvious, while certain touches are more discrete and veiled ; they reveal themselves only progressively to those who deepen their connection with his work.
The work of Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of literary genres, appearing separately but around the same time ( 1920s – 1930s ) as Bakhtin.
Much like Shandling's other work, The Larry Sanders Show presented its main character as rather selfish and neurotic ( but also likable and charming ), and it contained some " meta " touches, such as in the final episode, in which it is established that Garry Shandling exists in the Larry Sanders universe, and is the subject of a complaint by Sean Penn, involving Garry's narcissism and his behavior toward Penn's wife on the set of Hurlyburly.
In his work " Reise um die Welt in den Jahren " ( 1812 ), he wrote, " People also call this sea area the Sea of Korea, but because only a small part of this sea touches the Korean coast, it is better to name it the Sea of Japan.
The early work in this style is in black and white, later with hand-painted red and yellow touches.
We were doing all the Donald Duck stories for the shorts and doing all the story sketches at the time so I'm just guessing that they probably felt we could work out this story as well, maybe even add in a few touches to help it flow properly.
In 1496 he went to Florence in order to put the finishing touches to the work already begun in the sacristy of Santo Spirito.
The work touches upon much of what is known as the earth sciences.
These are not tied by very strong musical similarities, but a certain whimsicality, touches of psychedelia, rather abstruse lyrics, and a use of improvisation derived from jazz are common elements in their work.
" These small touches help with emotional connection to Vasquez's work, and are likely one of the factors in his cult following.
The earnestness and gravity of moral purpose which is so constant a note in the work of Hogarth is indeed far less characteristic of Leech, but there are touches of pathos and of tragedy in such of the Punch designs as the Poor Man's Friend ( 1845 ), and General Février turned Traitor ( 1855 ), and in The Queen of the Arena in the first volume of Once a Week, which are sufficient to prove that more solemn powers, for which his daily work afforded no scope, lay dormant in their artist.
The development section begins on D major and touches on D minor and C major before the work returns to G major for the recapitulation – a repetition of the exposition with both subjects in the same key, as is conventional.
Both light and firmer touches work well at the junction of the fingers.
Another work, which touches upon religious questions, Della regolata divozione de ' Cristiani ( Venice, 1747 ), also came under attack.
Not as realist as the work of some of his belle-époque predecessors in sculpture, Yrurtia's subtle impressionism inspired Argentine students like Antonio Pujía, whose internationally prized female torsos always surprise admirers with their whimsical and surreal touches, while Pablo Curatella Manes ' sculptures drew from cubism.
The wide-ranging instrumentation remained (" Diamond Dew " has a prominent part for the jaw harp ) and there were still psychedelic touches, but the album as a whole was more laid back than their earlier work, tending more towards folk music.
Ironically only now did it acquire Fleetwood wheel discs and doorsill moldings, presumably because the design work and final touches were still being done by Fleetwood.
Following the most painful period ( 1907 ) in his life, Mahler touches on issues of living, parting and salvation with this work.
* Erasmus Darwin publishes the first edition of Zoonomia, a medical work in two volumes that touches upon proto-evolutionary concepts, notably arguing that all extant organisms are descended from one common ancestor.
Petipa staged his definitive revival of Giselle in 1884 for the Ballerina Maria Gorshenkova, but made his final touches to the work for Anna Pavlova's debut in 1903.
The film also touches on an Old World work ethic.
It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal.

work and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
`` My dress needs some work on it ''.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
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.
But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.
Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.
And I was to go to work on that odd matter.
Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.
Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
The work week of attendants who are on duty 65 hours and more per week should be reduced.
But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
`` Argiento, this is senseless '', he complained, not liking to work on the wet floors, particularly in cold weather.
Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.
Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.
`` How you going to work with a child hanging on you ''??

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