Each Element also has a specialty for which a character can get a 1-point bonus ; e. g., a 5-Air hero with an Air specialty of " Writing " could write as though their Air score were 6.

Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.

Writing the " character sketch " as a scholastic exercise also originated in Theophrastus's typology.

Bright's book was followed by a number of others, including John Willis's Art of Stenography in 1602, Edmond Willis's An abbreviation of writing by character in 1618, and Thomas Shelton's Short Writing in 1626 ( later re-issued as Tachygraphy ).

Writing shortly before Geoffrey of Monmouth, William added much to the damnatio memoriae of Vortigern: " At this time Vortigern was King of Britain ; a man calculated neither for the field nor the council, but wholly given up to the lusts of the flesh, the slave of every vice: a character of insatiable avarice, ungovernable pride, and polluted by his lusts.

Writing more than a century later the writer W. H. Murray agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the " character and atmosphere ", and rather stand-offishly suggesting that " to know Staffa one must go alone ".

Writing after the events of 1604 – 1606, the Jesuit priest Oswald Tesimond's description of his friend was favourable: " his countenance was exceedingly noble and expressive ... his conversation and manners were peculiarly attractive and imposing, and that by the dignity of his character he exercised an irresistible influence over the minds of those who associated with him.

Writing in 2005, the television history lecturer Dr Catherine Johnson felt that in the original three 1950s serials, Quatermass as a character represented the championing of science and rationality over the supernatural and the fantastic.

Writing in 1982, Professor Peter Hogg expressed skepticism as to whether the courts could interpret and enforce this provision, noting its " political and moral, rather than legal " character.

Poe's character Legrand's explanation of his ability to solve the cipher is very like Poe's explanation in " A Few Words on Secret Writing ".

The episode which introduced her character, " Support Your Local Mother ," was so well-received that it won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in a Comedy Series for James L. Brooks and Allan Burns.

Writing of Mastronardi in 1986 in the newspaper El País ( Madrid ), Borges said of Mastronardi that " Like Auguste Dupin ... < nowiki > detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe < nowiki ></ nowiki > ... at night he went about the streets of Buenos Aires looking for that intellectual stimulus that only can be given by nighttime in a great city.

Writing to Sarah on 17 May 1811, she commented, " I read Self-Countroul & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death, but I think the principal character charming & well supported & the book really gives good lessons .".

Writing for the Los Angeles Daily News, Michael Liedtke and George Avalos described the character as " white-haired, urbane, genteeland dangerous ", noting that he was " equally at ease in Virginia's horse country, the tony rooms of Manhattan's Upper West Side and the antiseptic halls of facilities that house bizarre medical experiments ".

Writing intensively, he produced the entire novel, named La Cousine Bette after the main character, in two months.

In The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction, John Dufresne cites The Columbia Guide to Standard American English in suggesting that writers avoid eye dialect ; he argues that it is frequently pejorative, making a character seem stupid rather than regional, and is more distracting than helpful.

" Writing about this encounter, Christopher remarked that " McCain still holds many opinions that I find objectionable, but I also think that video places the ' character ' that is RS McCain into a context that simply reading him does not.

" Writing in his 70s, Greene drew on his own experience in MI6 and explored the moral ambiguities raised by his old boss, legendary Soviet double agent Kim Philby, although Greene stated that Castle, the main character in the novel, was not based on Philby.

Egri argues in The Art of Dramatic Writing against Aristotle's view of character being secondary to plot ( as stated in Aristotle's Poetics ).

In 1965, Egri expanded on his views of character development and motivation in the book, The Art of Creative Writing.

The Network now spans some 70 institutions across the art and design sector with 6 national and 2 International Writing PAD Centres.

Writing 30 years after Richter's death, Camille Paglia paid tribute to her " for her clarity and rigor of mind ; her fineness of sensibility and connoisseurship ; her attention to detail and her power of observation and deduction ; her mastery of form and design.

She also studied Writing: screenplay ; children's literature ; painting and art ; and interior design at the National University of Singapore College of Extramural Studies.

The program includes a minor and certificates in Electronic Writing, consisting of courses in weblogs, wikis, web content writing, web design, digital rhetoric, and teaching writing with technology.

Writing in 1932, Sir Edward Maufe said: ‘ The ideal has been to produce a design, definitely of our own time, yet in the line of the great English Cathedrals ; to build anew on tradition, to rely on proportion, mass, volume and line rather than on elaboration and ornament.

Writing to Darwin in 1871, Matthew enclosed an article he had written for The Scotsman and, as well as wishing that he had time to write a critique of The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex, expressed the belief that there is evidence of design and benevolence in nature, and that beauty cannot be accounted for by natural selection.

Writing for GameSpot, Doug Radcliffe argued that Decay was " impressive ", praising the design of puzzles required players to work together, as well as the way in which the ranking system discouraged players from competing against each other.

* Writing about the history of highways, highway terminology and the design of graphics or fonts to facilitate the work of others.

Writing in The Classic Car and The Packard Cormorant, Joel Prescott published an account of the Clipper design which considerably revised the picture offered by George Hamlin and Dwight Heinmuller in Packard: A History of the Motor Car and The Company, published by Automotive Quarterly.

Dona Bailey currently teaches in the department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, including a class geared specifically toward students training in game design ( 2006 ).

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

" Writing in Collier's more than 20 years earlier, Dorais ' Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne acknowledged Cochems as the early leader in the use of the pass, observing, " One would have thought that so effective a play would have been instantly copied and become the vogue.

Writing 10 years later, Cubs ' shortstop Ernie Banks would call it the longest ball he'd seen hit at Wrigley Field ; according to Banks, the consensus among the Cubs was that " it must have traveled more than 500 feet ( 152. 4 m ) on its trip into Waveland Avenue.

Writing for the majority, Justice Rehnquist rejected the appellants argument for the common law's protection of property against trespass, writing that such an interpretation would " represent a return to the era of Lochner v. New York,, when common-law rights were also found immune from revision ... would freeze the common law as it has been constructed by courts, perhaps at its 19th-century state of development.

Writing in 1972, John C. Masterman ( who would later head the Twenty Committee ) said that by 1941 MI5 " actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in United Kingdom.

Writing of the " artist as prophet " in his book, Concerning the Spiritual In Art, Kandinsky created paintings in the years immediately preceding World War I showing a coming cataclysm which would alter individual and social reality.

Writing in a pamphlet around the year 1900, Yarkovsky noted that the diurnal heating of a rotating object in space would cause it to experience a force that, while tiny, could lead to large long-term effects in the orbits of small bodies, especially meteoroids and small asteroids.

Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.

The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World Writing as Catch-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's Mila 18.

Early in September 2004, Michael Cullen, the deputy prime minister of New Zealand, announced that Irving would not be permitted to visit the country, where he had been invited by the National Press Club to give a series of lectures under the heading " The Problems of Writing about World War II in a Free Society ".

Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

Writing to Fronto, he declared that he would not speak about his holiday.

Writing at about 100 years after the end of the Social War ( 91 – 88 BC ), a failed last attempt of the italic tribes to form a union, Italy, that would compete with Rome in power and influence, the Roman geographer, Strabo, placed the location of the Vestini as he knew it to be as follows.

Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.

Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.

Writing to Canon Malcolm MacColl, Salisbury believed that Gladstone's proposals for reform without redistribution would mean " the absolute effacement of the Conservative Party.

Writing in 1906, Louis Chassevent recognized the difference ( and as Daniel Robbins pointed out in his Gleizes catalogue, used the word " cube " which later would be taken up by Louis Vauxelles to baptize Cubism ): " M. Metzinger is a mosaicist like M. Signac but he brings more precision to the cutting of his cubes of color which appear to have been made mechanically [...]".

Writing in 1936, Shachtman would criticize Abern's habit of nourishing secret cliques of friends and supporters by supplying them with insider information about debates in the League's leadership.

Writing in a pamphlet around the year 1900, Yarkovsky noted that the diurnal heating of a rotating object in space would cause it to experience a force that, while tiny, could lead to large long-term effects in the orbits of small bodies, especially meteoroids and small asteroids.

Writing in 2000, the television historian John Caughie stated that " Newman's insistence that the series would use only original material written for television made Armchair Theatre a decisive moment in the history of British television drama.

Writing in 1982, historian Jaroslav Folda noted that at the time there had been little investigation of Crusader frescoes which would provide a comparison for the fragmentary remains found at Krak des Chevaliers.