Writing in 335 BCE ( long after the Golden Age of 5th-century Athenian tragedy ), Aristotle provides the earliest-surviving explanation for the origin of the dramatic art-form in his Poetics, in which he argues that tragedy developed from the improvisations of the leader of choral dithyrambs ( hymns sung and danced in praise of Dionysos, the god of wine and fertility ):

Writing in The New Republic, critic Lee Siegel cited Quindlen as an example of the " monsters of empathy " who " self subjugate and domesticate and assimilate every distant tragedy.

Writing to Piave, Verdi made it clear how important this subject was to him: ".... This tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man ...

' Writing these pieces ' said Tóibín, ' helped me to come to terms with things-with my own interest in secret, erotic energy ( Roger Casement and Thomas Mann ), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren ’ t afraid ( Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar ), my abiding fascination with sadness ( Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin ) and, indeed, tragedy ( Thom Gunn and Mark Doty ).

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

Writing was introduced during the French occupation and literacy is limited, especially in rural areas.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.

Writing a century before Causantín was born, Bede recorded five languages in Britain.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

Writing was phonetic ; the letters represented the sounds and not conventional spellings.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

Writing was known and available for recording, even in small sites.

Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.

Writing data to a disk was done by converting 256-byte pages into sets of 5-bit or, later, 6-bit nibbles ; loading data from the disk required the reverse.

Writing of the beauty of the Hebrew women there, he records them saying St. Mary was a relative of theirs, and notes that, " The house of St. Mary is a basilica.

Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.

Writing in late antiquity, the Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight ( vir prudentissimus ), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia ().

Writing a little later, Tertullian makes the same main point but adds expressly that recently founded churches ( such as his own in Carthage ) could be considered apostolic if they had " derived the tradition of faith and the seeds of doctrine " from an apostolic church.

Writing the book The Presidential Succession in 1910 ( 1908 ), he called on voters to prevent the sixth re-election of Porfirio Díaz, which he considered anti-democratic.

Writing in The Washington Post, Harold Kneeland noted that Thunderball was " Not top Fleming, but still well ahead of the pack ", whilst Charles Poore, writing in The New York Times considered the Bond novels to be " post-Dostoevskian ventures in crime and punishment ".

Writing the preamble to the constitution was considered an honour, and a task requiring great literary ability.

Writing in The Guardian, critic Anthony Berkeley Cox, writing under the name Francis Iles, noted that the two minor grammatical errors he spotted were " likely to spoil no one's enjoyment " of the novel as he considered that On Her Majesty's Secret Service was " not only up to Mr. Fleming's usual level, but perhaps even a bit above it.

Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers-The Story of Secret Writing ( 1967 ), was widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography up to the mid-1960s.

Writing in French in the 1950s, Oyono had only a brief literary career, but his anti-colonialist novels are considered classics of 20th century African literature ; his first novel, Une vie de boy — published in 1956 and later translated as Houseboy — is considered particularly important.

Writing in Maclean's, Jaime Weinman said the choice of name was " a bit of a grimly amusing reminder that the U. S. TV industry doesn't take Canada very seriously ... ' The Newsroom ' is often considered the greatest show Canada has ever produced, but a U. S. network feels no need to fear unflattering comparisons: assuming they ’ ve heard of the show, they probably think most people in the States have not heard of it.

" Writing for Allmusic, music critic Thom Jurek called the album " Evans, with Paul Motian and Scott LaFaro, was onto something as a trio, exploring the undersides of melodic and rhythmic constructions that had never been considered by most ... Explorations is an extraordinary example of the reach and breadth of this trio at its peak.

Writing to his sister Willemina two years later in Paris, Van Gogh still considered The Potato Eaters his most successful painting: " What I think about my own work is that the painting of the peasants eating potatoes that I did in Nuenen is after all the best thing I did ").

" Andrew Green in ' Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories 1915 – 1948 ' ( 2003 ) considered the volumes of the Official History for Gallipoli, the Somme, 3rd Ypres and the German March offensive of 1918 and concluded that Edmonds had been far more objective than others had given him credit for.

" Writing for DVD Movie Guie, Colin Jacobson stated that, even though he feels the sixties have been lampooned " many, many times over the years ," he considered " D ' oh-in in the Wind " to be a successful spoof of the era.

Students applying to be undergraduate degree candidates must successfully complete three 4-credit liberal arts courses exclusively at Harvard with at least a B grade or higher ; obtain at least a 3. 0 cumulative GPA, including a specific course in Expository Writing, EXPO E-25 ; and be proficient in English in order to be considered for admission.

Writing a Mac program without an application framework is not an easy task, but at the time the object-oriented programming field was still very new and considered somewhat suspect by many developers.

Writing of Hildebrand's support for Nolte, Mommsen declared that: “ Hildebrand ’ s polemic clearly suggests that he barely considered the consequences of making Nolte ’ s constructs the centrepiece of a modern German conservatism that is very anxious to relativize the National Socialist experience and to find the way back to a putative historically “ normal situation ”.

Hildebrand is pleased that Nolte denies the singularity of the Nazi atrocities ” Hans Mommsen defended Habermas against Hildebrand by writing :“ Hildebrand ’ s partisan shots can be easily deflected ; that Habermas is accused of a “ loss of reality and Manichaeanism ”, and that his honesty is denied is witness to the self-consciousness of a self-nominated historian elite, which has set itself the task of tracing the outlines of the seeming badly needed image of history ” Writing of Hildebrand's support for Nolte, Mommsen declared that: “ Hildebrand ’ s polemic clearly suggests that he barely considered the consequences of making Nolte ’ s constructs the centrepiece of a modern German conservatism that is very anxious to relativize the National Socialist experience and to find the way back to a putative historically “ normal situation ” In another essay, Mommsen wrote that Hildebrand was gulity of hypocrisy because Hildebrand had until 1986 always claimed that generic fascism was invalid concept because of the " singularity " of the Holocaust Mommsen wrote that " Klaus Hildebrand explicitly took sides with Nolte's view when he gave his previously stubbornly claimed singularity of National Socialism ( failing to appreciate that was, as is well known, the standard criticism of the comparative fascism theory )" Martin Broszat observed that when Hildebrand organized a conference of right-wing German historians under the auspices of the Schleyer Foundation in West Berlin in September 1986, he did not invite Nolte, whom Broszat observed lived in Berlin.

Writing in 1776 of the ancient Romans, Edward Gibbon said: " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosopher as equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Writing special material for Carol Burnett and Brooke Shields, among others and working with Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog, Charles shared an office with Jim Henson, who Charles considered ” a genius ”.