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She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.
She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.
She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).
She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.
She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.
She compared what she found with recordings of non-Christian rituals from Africa, Borneo, Indonesia and Japan.
She hosted 56 state dinners over eight years, compared to six by George and Laura Bush.
She seemed especially kind compared to fellow judge Simon Cowell, who was often blunt in his appraisals of the contestants ' performances.
She indicates that when people, after having been immunized against snake-bite, are bitten by a venomous snake, particularly by krait, cobra or another elapids, they experience an emotional and mental state that has been compared to the effects of hallucinogenic substances.
She also began a jewelry and skincare line, although neither of those ventures compared to the success of her wig collection HAIRuWEAR.
: Example: She was a hippo compared to her aunt.
" She was favorably compared to both Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson, no mean feat for a woman writer in the 18th century.
She also was inspired by fellow vocalist Whitney Houston, whom Dion has often been compared to.
She famously compared the lengthy shoot to a cold she couldn't get rid of.
Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled witha flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”
She compared the phrase to " All this and heaven, too!
She stated that it took her four days to get over the sight of herself aged so drastically, and compared the feeling to having an " electric shock ".
She compared Florida sugarcane agriculture to sugarcane grown in the West Indies, that she claimed was more environmentally sound, had a longer harvest cycle less harmful to soil nutrients, and was less expensive for consumers due to the higher sugar content.
She then took personal charge of the imperial family, directing its affairs with such authority that she became known in society at large as the emperor s guardian .” Immediately when Pulcheria took authority over the imperial palace, the palace took on a much more monastic tone compared to that of her mother s palace.
She suffered from toothaches which she refused to have treated locally, and took extensive measures to shelter herself from the harsh sun, not only spending much of her time under a large parasol but wearing large sunglasses and wrapping her face in a white gauze veil, to the point that her appearance was compared to a Star Wars stormtrooper.
She compared her own move from Boston to New York to Fuller's, saying that Boston was not a good place for intellectuals, despite the assumption that it was the best place for intellectuals.
She is often seen as unattractive when compared to her beautiful older sister, Bridget.
She is known for being very strong willed compared to the other Wise Ones who are all considered strong willed.
She is embarrassed by how " boring " her family is compared to her friends and classmates.
She also compared the ESF to the nazi occupation of Florence.

She and period
She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.
She was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework.
She was well suited to the precise work but later wrote, " this was the lowest depth I ever reached in commercial art, and although it was a period when youth and romance were in their first attendance on me, I remember it with gloom and record it with shame.
She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.
She also wrote a minor chart hit for Hank Williams Jr during this period.
She reigned for twenty years, a period marked by the establishment of Moscow University and the abolition of capital punishment, except in cases of high treason.
She wrote 34 screenplays during that period, most of which were adaptations.
She is described as having heavy blonde hair which fell past her knees, a beautiful complexion, hazel eyes which changed colour, a full, high bosom, and a natural grace which made her appear to " walk on air "; these were the physical attributes that were highly appreciated in Italy during that period.
She had been involved in relationships with Havelock Ellis and H. G. Wells during this period of estrangement.
She writes that only three fragmentary manuscripts are known to have survived into the modern period, two 3rd-century fragments ( P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus 3525 ) published in 1938 and 1983, and a longer 5th-century Coptic translation ( Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1 ) published in 1955.
She was rumored to be married to Egyptian musician Abdel Halim Hafez for an unknown period of time ( 6 years were proposed ).
She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.
She gradually recovered over a period of several months.
She was the lowest ranking member of a troop for a period of 22 months.
She broke down in tears at the thought of leaving her children, who were to be left in the care of their grandparents, for such a lengthy period of time.
She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.
She was obliged to remain with Hades for six or four months ( one month per seed ) while staying above ground with her mother for a similar period.
During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.
She remained popular in her district and well liked in the United States during the 1920s, but this period of success is generally believed to have declined in the following decades.
She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period.
She, along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, has been coming under increasing critical scrutiny at the beginning of the 21st century.
She was well treated and fed throughout this period.
She commenced a lengthy period of physical therapy and, aided by her personal assistant, Kathryn Sermak, gained partial recovery from the paralysis.
She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period.
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period.

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