State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.

Epicurus was also a significant source of inspiration and interest for both Arthur Schopenhauer, having particular influence on the famous pessimist's views on suffering and death, as well as one of Schopenhauer's successors: Friedrich Nietzsche.

In May 1564 Arthur Golding, in his dedication to his Th ’ Abridgement of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius, attributed to his young nephew an interest in ancient history and contemporary events.

The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ).

The end of the Middle Ages brought with it a waning of interest in King Arthur.

In the early 19th century, medievalism, Romanticism, and the Gothic Revival reawakened interest in Arthur and the medieval romances.

This renewed interest first made itself felt in 1816, when Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur was reprinted for the first time since 1634.

Tennyson's works prompted a large number of imitators, generated considerable public interest in the legends of Arthur and the character himself, and brought Malory's tales to a wider audience.

Furthermore, the revival of interest in Arthur and the Arthurian tales did not continue unabated.

By the end of the 19th century, it was confined mainly to Pre-Raphaelite imitators, and it could not avoid being affected by the First World War, which damaged the reputation of chivalry and thus interest in its medieval manifestations and Arthur as chivalric role model.

Before the First Fleet sailed to found a convict settlement in New South Wales, Governor Arthur Phillip's final instructions, received less than three weeks before sailing, included the requirement to colonise Norfolk Island to prevent it falling into the hands of France, whose naval leaders were also showing interest in the Pacific.

Surrealists revived interest in Isidore Ducasse, known by his pseudonym Comte de Lautréamont, and for the line " beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella ", and Arthur Rimbaud, two late 19th century writers believed to be the precursors of Surrealism.

In 1268 Henry donated a manor in Melksham, a place that Eleanor had shown her interest in, to Amesbury for the souls of Eleanor and her younger brother Arthur, who was captured along with his sister and disappeared mysteriously the next year, it being widely believed that John had him murdered.

After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks ( mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout ).

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.

After his father died in a car accident, he went to live with his mother in California, but his stepfather had no interest in raising another man's son, and so Arthur was sent to an orphanage.

Perkin, who had an interest in painting and photography, immediately became enthusiastic about this result and carried out further trials with his friend Arthur Church and his brother Thomas.

At first, Guinevere is implied as the love interest of Merlin ( who is far younger in the series ), but later falls in love with Prince Arthur.

Alexander McKenzie, took an interest in the gold rush and secured the appointment of Arthur Noyes as the federal district judge for the Nome region for the purpose of taking control of gold placer mines in Nome.

A letter of Sidonius's addressed to Riothamus, " King of the Brittones " ( c. 460 ) is of particular interest, since it provides evidence that a king or military leader with ties to Britain lived around the time frame of King Arthur.

The grateful Little Dorrit falls in love with Arthur, much to the dismay of the son of the Marshalsea jailer, John Chivery, who has loved her since childhood ; Arthur, however, fails to recognize Amy's interest.

While it is of interest to archaeologists because it is an example of a hill fort whose fortifications entirely postdate the Roman period, this hill is also of interest to enthusiasts about the legends of King Arthur.

The works of Petrarch first displayed the new interest in the intellectual values of the Classical world in the early 14th century and the romance of this era as rediscovered in the Renaissance period can be seen expressed by Boccaccio.

* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.

It has been suggested that the use of a pastoral romance from the 1590s indicates that at the end of his career, Shakespeare felt a renewed interest in the dramatic contexts of his youth.

Gorey never married, professed to have little interest in romance, and never discussed any specific romantic relationships in interviews.

Edward and Wallis's romance captured the imagination and interest of multiple artists.

These processes, which involve attracting a partner and maintaining sexual interest, can include flirting, which can be used to attract the sexual attention of another in order to encourage romance or sexual relations, and can involve body language, conversation, joking, or brief physical contact.

Regarding space, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy took the position that " as long as humanity remains flawed and sinful, our exploration of other planets will tend to do them more harm than good "; and most scientific romance authors had not even that much interest in the topic.

After this realization, she is never again shown having any doubts about her lack of interest in romance.

To his research are due, among other matters of literary interest, the first account of Thomas Carlyle's Lectures on periods of European culture ; the identification of Shelley as the author of a review ( in The Critical Review of December 1814 ) of a lost romance by James Hogg ; a description of Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform ; a manuscript diary of Fabre d ' Églantine ; and a record by Dr Wilhelm Weissenborn of Goethe's last days and death.

His next feature was the comedy / romance film Punch-Drunk Love ( 2002 ), partly based on David Phillips ( also called The Pudding Guy ), starring Adam Sandler with Emily Watson as his love interest.

Finally, in 1790, she published Euphemia, her last novel, with little success, as the public's interest in novels of romance seemed to have waned.

His Days of our Lives character ’ s romance with Patsy Pease's character, Kimberly Brady, made the duo into a soap supercouple and revived interest in Days among teenage viewers in the 1980s.

Logo's programming is a blend of movies with gay themes, reality television, travel programming, dating / romance shows, documentaries, music videos, stand-up comedy, news, and syndicated programs with gay characters or gay interest / fanbases.

Though Luann assured Bernice that she no longer saw Ben as a potential romance, she rekindled her interest by making a Valentine's Day dinner for Ben.

The pairing eventually succumbed to overexposure, however, which caused public interest in their romance to result in less admiration and negatively affected their careers.

The class has a lot of experiences while in Moscow: Dennis and Arvid take interest in two beautiful women, until they realize they might be KGB spies ; Eric meets up with his relatives in what is a very positive experience for him ; capitalist Alan has an argument with a die-hard socialist in a store ( who is also on the opposing Russian academic team ); Sarah and Darlene decide to record the sights and sounds of Moscow ; Simone goes to put flowers on a poet's grave and meets up with a charming Russian musician ; Dr. Samuels believe that his hotel room is bugged, but he just ends up making a fool of himself ; and Charlie has a brief romance with a schoolteacher.

Dramas are generated with a specific genre like romance, comedy, horror, family drama, sports, or a mixture of these in the form of ancient, historical, or modern to highlight the theme and suits the audience ’ s interest.

The 43, 000 lines which it contains are of but little interest to the historian ; they are too evidently the work of a romancier courtois, who takes pleasure in recounting love-adventures such as those he has described in his romance of Troy.

Until she appears, he has no love interest ( indeed, the first two books are tautly constructed, and do not suffer from the absence of romance ), and when puzzling over his love for Mary, he remarks: " You can't live my kind of life for forty years, wholly among men, and be any good at pretty speeches to women.

Chinese literature displays a long history of interest in affection, marital bliss, unabashed sexuality, romance, amorous dalliances, homosexual alliances — in short, all of the aspects of behavior that are affiliated with sexuality in the West.

* Conner McDermott, Elizabeth's senior year love interest who has a brief romance with Maria Slater as well.

He is the love interest of Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters ' secretary, in the first film and both animated series ( Ghostbusters II excluded their romance due to Ramis ' dislike of the subplot, thus having Melnitz date Louis Tully instead ); Spengler sometimes appears to be unaware of Melnitz's romantic interest in him, but at times he displays having similar feelings for her, such as when he gave her a geranium as a gift when she expressed an interest in plants ( which backfired horribly when it was revealed that the geranium was possessed by a ghost and nearly destroyed her apartment, along with much of Brooklyn ; though Egon managed to thwart the ghost, Melnitz angrily told Spengler he would have to pay for the damages to her home ) and when he rushed to her rescue in " Janine, You've Changed "; he also embraces her in " Ghost Busted " after she was kidnapped and held for ransom by a gangster, and became jealous when she was briefly involved with a slimy businessman named Paul Smart.