One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Austen addresses the reader directly in parts, particularly at the end of Chapter 5, where she gives a lengthy opinion of the value of novels, and the contemporary social prejudice against them in favour of drier historical works and newspapers.

She was an avid reader and critic of contemporary literature, reviewing for publications such as the London Evening Standard, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Sunday Times and Books & Bookmen.

A voracious reader, he can discourse on both contemporary and classical literature.

There is a special service for the ordination of a subdeacon, although in contemporary practice an acolyte or a reader may receive the bishop's blessing to vest and act as a subdeacon generally or for a particular occasion if there is no subdeacon available.

His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind takes the reader into the middle of contemporary ( mid-1990 ) debates in philosophy of mind.

Troilus and Cressida, that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays, strikes the modern reader as a contemporary document — its investigation of numerous infidelities, its criticism of tragic pretensions, above all, its implicit debate between what is essential in human life and what is only existential are themes of the twentieth century.

Nonetheless, the force of Marx's opposition to Hegelian idealism and to any " philosophy " divorced from political practice remains powerful even to a contemporary reader.

For the contemporary reader though, the work appears to have a distinctly Marxist-Leninist ideological flavor characteristic to a Soviet-era official writer.

A keen reader of baseball statistics, in 1978 he published an article anticipating what was later to be known as sabermetric analysis, though Matus would distinguish his own methods from the mechanical computerized techniques of contemporary sabermetrics, an approach he characterises as ' the baseball version of Oxfordianism '.

The puns and " silly pictures on the wall with various items hanging clear out of the frames " was the feature that provoked the most reader mail, according to contemporary articles and interviews with Holman.

Rather than passively ingest the poet's vision of contemporary society, the poets of what came to be called variously the generation of 1956 or “ of the 1960s ” produced poetry that engaged the reader in the interpretation if not the production of that vision.

Bob Ellis wrote in Overland, ‘ What I think absorbs the reader in the deeply revelatory un-memoir Wild Amazement is ... Michael ’ s clear, almost hyper-real remembrance, as if experienced on a guided tour of a radiant, countercultural Disneyland, of a way of life, and a gravely joyous bohemia now gone, of how it was, and what a time it was, it really was, in Sydney in the sixties and seventies, in the Newcastle and the Journos ’ Club and the Push parties and the plans for a literary life .’ And in, Quadrant, Peter Corris wrote, ‘ Anyone interested in how contemporary Australian writing came to be the way it is, with its strengths and follies, its cliques and patrons, and the challenges it faces, will benefit from reading Wilding ’ s sensitive, sometimes bitchy, often funny and always intelligent tracing of his life ’ s trajectory .’ The Italian translation of Wild Amazement appeared in 2009.

Watkin's printings for spiritualists and the African-American community paralleled the interests of his contemporary Fourierists and likely indicate that Watkin was more than simply a reader of Charles Fourier.

Inside, Lewis used a range of bold typographic innovations and tricks to engage the reader, that are reminiscent of Marinetti's contemporary concrete poetry such as Zang Tumb Tumb.

Each volume was stated to be " an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader ".

The nonverbal communication reader: classic and contemporary readings.

The nonverbal communication reader: Classic and contemporary reading.

The nonverbal communication reader: classical and contemporary perspectives ( 2nd ed .).

Haidt's book for the general reader The Happiness Hypothesis looks at the ways in which contemporary psychology casts light on the moral ideas of the past.

His sense of fairness and belief in equality for all is a theme explored in many of his books and, within their historical settings, the discerning reader will recognise many parallels with contemporary issues.

His " Satir " is a patchwork of didactic poetry, prose, quasi-dramatic dialogues, soaked in common sense wisdom of Enlightenment and consisting mainly of pragmatic counsels on agriculture, small manufacture and, the most amusing part for the contemporary reader — sexual and behavioral codes of Croatian inhabitants of Slavonia which survived the Turkish expulsion and which were, as a sign of " Oriental " sensualism and dissoluteness, particularly abhorrent to the Rationalist moralist Relković.

There is a special service for the ordination of a reader, although in contemporary practice a layman may receive the priest's blessing to read on a particular occasion.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

The contemporary historian James W. Loewen agrees with the oral traditions in his book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong ( 1999 ), but there is not a consensus within the professional academic community.

Many contemporary Pueblo peoples object to the use of the term Anasazi, although there is still controversy among them on a native alternative.

In the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( around four hundred years after his time ) Ælle is recorded as being the first bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ", though there is no evidence that this was a contemporary title.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Despite the ubiquity of computer music in contemporary culture, there is considerable activity in the field of computer music, as researchers continue to pursue new and interesting computer-based synthesis, composition, and performance approaches.

From the time of Deng Xiaoping onwards, there has been a drift of focus towards a Marxist-inspired, moderated by Conficianism, nationalist perspective, and consideration of China's contemporary international status became of paramount importance in historical studies.

Where there is a contemporary town at the site or nearby, Eusebius notes it in the corresponding entry.

Surveying the entire range of French filmmaking today, Tim Palmer calls contemporary cinema in France a kind of eco-system, in which commercial cinema co-exists with artistic radicalism, first-time directors ( who make up about 40 % of all France's directors each year ) mingle with veterans, and there even occasionally emerges a fascinating pop-art hybridity, in which the features of intellectual and mass cinemas are interrelated ( as in filmmakers like Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Assayas, Maïwenn, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, and others ).

As long as there is no contemporary source or dispatch on the topic, Hills does not personally discard ( a ) considering it the most likely possibility ).

The location of those Vandals is not stated, but there is a match with his contemporary Ptolemy's east German tribes.

Other than Evliyâ Çelebi's report, there are no other contemporary references to the events.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

By the late 18th century, with both religious and mytholological painting in decline, there was an increased demand for paintings of scenes from history, including contemporary history.

Arthur Collier published similar assertions though there seems to have been no influence between the two contemporary writers.

Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, a contemporary Mauritanian scholar, has argued that " though homosexuality is a grievous sin ... no legal punishment is stated in the Qur ' an for homosexuality ... it is not reported that Prophet Muhammad has punished somebody for committing homosexuality ... there is no authentic hadith reported from the Prophet prescribing a punishment for the homosexuals ..." Hadith scholars such as Al-Bukhari, Yahya ibn Ma ` in, An-Nasa ' i, Ibn Hazm, Al-Tirmidhi, and others have impugned them.

A satirical song published in The Times newspaper of 1789 referring to the rumoured clandestine marriage between Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert also reflects this symbolic usage of the broomstick imagery: “ Their way to consummation was by hopping o ’ er a broom, sir ”, and there are plentiful other examples of ‘ broomstick ’ being using in other contemporary contexts but all with a similar implication of dubiousness or fakery.

Some philosophers used to contend that positivism was the theory that there is " no necessary connection " between law and morality ; but influential contemporary positivists, including Joseph Raz, John Gardner, and Leslie Green, reject that view.

During the 12th century, there were contrary opinions expressed about the nature of kingship, and many contemporary writers believed that monarchs should rule in accordance with the custom and the law, and take council with the leading members of the realm.

Apparently, Art Historians faces the facts that there are no contemporary documents to help them certify his date of birth, birthplace, and family background – there have been theories and these are the most accepted – he was born in 1753, probably Edo, and his father was an owner of a Tea-house.