And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

Of Academic painting, Malraux writes, ' All true painters, all those for whom painting is a value, were nauseated by these pictures – " Portrait of a Great Surgeon Operating " and the like – because they saw in them not a form of painting, but the negation of painting '.

In the late 1930s, the works of Hemingway, Faulkner and Dos Passos came to be translated into French, and their prose style had a profound impact on the work of writers like Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux and Albert Camus.

He treats her like she was dirt.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

Donna was like he was.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was like hitting a sack of salt.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

There was no valley like this on your map.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;

It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Aristotle also tended to stratify all aspects of human nature and activity into levels of excellence and, like Plato, he put the pure and unimpassioned intellect on the top level.

Williams also stated: `` Our peace was like the peace of a man who hath the tertian ague ''.

And it is also a fact of life that there will always ( be youngish half-educated people around, who will be dazzled by the glitter of what looks like a literary movement.

But it also looked like a toad, hopping away from the light.

In her opening remarks Mrs. Long also welcomed the Juniors and stated, `` There isn't any other show quite like Westminster.

She also banks into a turn like a fine runabout -- not digging in on the outside to throw passengers all over the boat like many a small cabin cruiser.

She also taught them to sing `` I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate ''.

The Capitol Hill rehabilitation, like Foggy Bottom, replaces Negroes with whites ( but also replaces some whites with other whites ).

This is true also of a painter like Jackson Pollock.

Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

A young man doesn't like to be driven up in front of a school in a car driven by a girl who isn't even in a higher class than he is, and is also a girl.

He also speaks of Franklin D. Roosevelt's `` puerile '' assumption that `` if only he ( Stalin ) could be exposed to the persuasive charm of someone like F.D.R. himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia's co-operation with the West could be easily arranged ''.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

He also had, at times, an uncanny absent-minded air like a sleepwalker ; ;

The President is also provided a variety of powers, like defining the policy of the country.

They can also include essential oils that have some antibacterial properties, like phenol, thymol, eugenol, eucalyptol or menthol.

He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row if they would also like a biscuit.

Anxiety can also be experienced in ways which include changes in sleeping patterns, nervous habits, and increased motor tension like foot tapping.

The parapsychologist H. H. Price had also developed his own hypothesis about what the afterlife may be like.