The author Julian Symons has commented on writers who see this as a detective story, arguing that " those who search for fragments of detection in the Bible and Herodotus are looking only for puzzles " and that these puzzles are not detective stories.

Paintings of martyrs and their feats began to appear, and early writers commented on their lifelike effect, one of the elements a few Christian writers criticized in pagan art — the ability to imitate life.

The first known book on cards called Yezi Gexi was allegedly written by a Tang era woman, and was commented on by Chinese writers of subsequent dynasties.

After the game, many sports writers commented on Warner's rise from an unknown backup to a Super Bowl MVP, but Warner himself wasn't impressed by it.

His fu ( rhapsody ) and shi poetry were renowned and commented on by later Chinese writers.

Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg commented that " The Sun shone brightly, though too briefly ," and that its writers were " smart, thoughtful, provocative ".

His ideas were responded to and developed by some later theorists such as Archestratus, and his place in the methodological debate between rationalists and empiricists was commented upon by such writers as Ptolemais of Cyrene.

" Kingston commented on her critics ' opinions in a 1990 interview in which she stated that men believe that minority women writers have " achieved success by collaborating with the white racist establishment ," by " pander to the white taste for feminist writing ...

In a 1975 retrospective article, Gold commented that his policy with If was to experiment, using new writers that had not yet established themselves.

" The Times commented, " Steven Moffat is turning out to be one of the boldest, most inventive, sitcom writers around.

Donald Tovey, writing in his Essays in Musical Analysis, commented on this movement's " Bacchic fury " and many other writers have commented on its whirling dance-energy: the main theme is in fact taken from Beethoven's arrangement of the Irish folk-song " Save me from the grave and wise ", No. 8 of his Twelve Irish Folk Songs, WoO 154.

Further to this, a story can be kept running longer by engaging " community websites ", which are monitored and commented on by many journalists and features writers.

London's oldest daughter Joan commented that in spite of its tragic ending, the book is often regarded as " a ' success ' story ... which inspired not only a whole generation of young writers but other different fields who, without aid or encouragement, attained their objectives through great struggle ".

Cast members of Titus have commented they enjoyed working with Keach because, even with the dryest line the writers could invent, Keach would find a way to make the line funny.

Selman commented in an audio commentary for " Bart to the Future " that " the thing that really got the writers excited about the episode was this very specific version of future Bart.

It often printed letters from established writers, and from fans who would go on to become well known professionally: Damon Knight's letters are described by sf historian Mike Ashley as " legendary "; and Robert Silverberg commented in a letter in the Summer 1950 issue that Ray Bradbury " certainly gets some original ideas, if not good ones ".

Strickson has humorously commented that, not knowing what to do with him, the writers of the television series would often have the villains capture or lock him up, leading to Turlough ending up in various " states of bondage ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film three out of four stars and commented, " I do like the way director Carl Franklin and writers Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley.

Such debates arose from responses to ancient writers who had commented on differences between northern and southern Europeans.

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Terry Pender commented on At Swim, Two Boys: " With only this work O ' Neill can take his rightful place among the great Irish writers beginning with Joyce and ending with Roddy Doyle ".

" The IGN writers commented that " We've never heard anyone describe their life's passion as a parasitic infestation, and we hope we never have to.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Upon receiving the news, Northern writers, editors, and clergymen heaped accusations of murder on the Southern states, particularly Virginia.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

Among the subjects discussed will be Russian restrictions on poets and writers in the USSR ( Channel 9 at 9:30 ).

Other influential writers in the 1970s include Pierre Clastres, who explains in his books on the Guayaki tribe in Paraguay that " primitive societies " actively oppose the institution of the state.

Ghostwriters, technical writers, and textbooks writers are typically paid in a different way: usually a set fee or a per word rate rather than on a percentage of sales.

It is therefore not unlikely that some Gnostics used amulets, though the confident assertions of modern writers to this effect rest on no authority.

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

Most early writers concur in placing it on an island ; so Tukulti-Ninurta II, Assur-nasir-pal, Isidore, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Serapion, al-Istakri, Abulfeda and al-Karamani.

It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.

Other early Christian writers wrote about Atlantis, though they had mixed views on whether it once existed or was an untrustworthy myth of pagan origin.

It may be noted, in confirmation of this view, that the naval supremacy of Aegina is assigned by the ancient writers on chronology to precisely this period, i. e. the years 490-480.

For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus.

Blitzkrieg as used by Germany had considerable psychological, or as some writers call, " terror " elements, such as the noise-making sirens on the Junkers Ju 87 dive-bombers to affect the morale of enemy forces.

From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan.

Most writers on the philosophy of consciousness have been concerned to defend a particular point of view, and have organized their material accordingly.

To writers on spiritual or religious topics, it frequently connotes the relationship between the mind and God, or the relationship between the mind and deeper truths that are thought to be more fundamental than the physical world.

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