Sentences with phrase «as yeats»

Joe jumped up in a great rage and as Yeats was trying to get up, Joe flattened him with as good a right hook as you will ever see.

But unfortunately that technical, rational approach simply hasn't worked: while many logistic problems of one kind or another on the nation's campuses have been solved, both faculty and students continue to operate in that spiritual climate where, as Yeats prophetically put it, «The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.»

(As Yeats once said, «It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.»)

In imitating a kind of crucifixion, Merrick also invokes the traditional poetry of an older religion that for some of the Late Romantics retained its «traditional sanctity and loveliness» (as Yeats wrote) if not its grounding in historical truth.

Things have not just fallen apart, as Yeats said; they have split into warring camps.

Not exact matches

John Montague regarded Patrick Kavanagh as the last voice of an Ireland dominated by Yeats, the final unstable echo of a country half - in - love with its own provincialism.

The essays on Yeats differ in leaving the specific verdict to the discretion of the reader; they are intended (especially the first) to answer only the preliminary question as to what constitute Yeats's pervading ideas.

I was in my seat in the old East stand with a mate and he's young son when my mate gave me nudge and said «you seen who's behind us» as I turned round it was Joe and without any hesitation said «seen anything of him» and in he's broad Scottish accent, although Joe was English, born in Liverpool to a Seaman father, he grew up in Scotland, «who's that» he said, I said Ron Yeats, with that we all burst out laughing, I then lifted my mates young son, turned him round and said «see this man, he's the greatest centre forward ever to play for Arsenal» I got a massive smile from Joe and could see that it made he's day, made mine as well

The funniest thing was when they eventually revived the odious Yeats, his face was a picture when the Ref sent him off as well.!!

When Yeats came to, thinking he had got away with one, the ref gave him a red card as well.!!

As William Butler Yeats once said, «Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.»

His interest in spiritualism took root in his poetry as a result of meeting W. B. Yeats during a trip to Dublin, Ireland.

She was 41 - yeats - old and was completely over the New York dating scene which she jokingly refers to as «buffet dating.»

To enforce the ban, the city / state of Libria (i.e., Manhattan as a bad matte) has trained a group of «Grammaticon Clerics» (who have perfected the art of «gunkata») to wander around killing anybody reading Yeats, and these cops are flanked by a retinue of those jack - booted villains from Michael Jackson's long - form «Smooth Criminal» video.

Saying that all of the performances in Equilibrium are fatuous and inane is moot — better to note that Emily Watson (howlingly awful as a doomed love interest), between this, Red Dragon, and Punch - Drunk Love is now one - for - three for 2002; that Christian Bale is starting to remind me a little of the lost promise of Gary Oldman; and that dimwitted films that use poetry as a means toward sublimity (Red Dragon and Blake, Blue Car and Rilke, Equilibrium and Yeats) would probably be better served to leave the pretension to those able to carry it off.

Extras: Over two hours of additional commentaries and readings by dozens of celebrities; two songs based on Yeats» poems by: Bono «Mad as the Mist and Snow,» and Elvis Costello «A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety»; «Yeats Remembered» soundtrack by Pete Briquette; 73 poetry readings and 23 discussion pieces.

The effect was to set people free for a new and more oppressive bondage, unrestrained by the custom and ceremony from which, as the Irish poet William Butler Yeats reminded us, innocence and beauty come to enrich our lives.

Marías is a translator (to Spanish) of authors such as Faulkner, Yeats, Shakespeare, and Nabokov; an essayist; columnist for Madrid's newspaper El País; and member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.

I asked Ross, the founding director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), to give us some idea of what it's like to wade into such an effort as she has undertaken with the Yeats.

ALLi founder, author, and W.B. Yeats specialist Orna Ross joined in on our chat, as well.

But as William Butler Yeats once said «There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.»

Visit the Hunt Museum and join a curator for a tour through one of Ireland's greatest private collections of art and antiques, including work from medieval times as well as art by Renoir, Picasso, and Yeats.

At the end of his poem «Sailing to Byzantium,» W.B. Yeats, as he conjures a poetic afterlife, draws an absolute distinction between the «bodily form» of «any natural thing» and products of human artifice and craft that depend on such features as «hammered gold and gold enameling.»

The book draws parallels between humanist themes reflected in both Guston's paintings and drawings as well as in the language and prose discerned in five of the 20th century's most prominent literary figures: D.H. Lawrence, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Eugenio Montale and T.S. Eliot.

Aside from visual artists, the Club also has hosted lectures and performances from such prominent musicians as John Cage, Philip Glass, Ramsey Lewis and Igor Stravinsky, and poets W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein and William Butler Yeats.

Includes Old Master paintings (14th century - present), as well as a wide collection of works by Irish artists James Barry, Augustus Nicholas Burke, Gerard Dillon, Paul Henry, Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Mainie Jellett, Sean Keating, Louis le Brocquy, William John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Roderic O'Conor, Sarah Purser and Jack B. Yeats, as well as many other Irish painters and sculptors.

Turbulence, which takes key works by Jack Butler Yeats as its point of departure, considers the movement of people in today's world, against the backdrop of shifting contemporary perspectives on post-colonialism, socio - politics, hospitality and humanity.

Toibin compares the strangely protean, often disturbing works to the poetry of Yeats (as well as the later plays of Samuel Beckett, yet another Irishman who meditated on endings).

Continuing into the twentieth century, major works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Henry Moore, Philip Guston and Ellsworth Kelly accompany such Irish masterpieces as the nationalist - inspired canvases of Sean Keating and Maurice McGonigal, and the Modernist works of Jack B. Yeats and Mainie Jellett.

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is a gallery of modern art and has a fantastic collection of works by artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Jack B. Yeats.

These include works ranging in style from expressionistic to surrealist to cubist by Patrick Collins, Mainie Jellett, Colin Middleton, Jack B Yeats and others; abstract paintings by artists such as Josef Albers, Cecil King and William Scott, and more gestural works by Tony O'Malley and Richard Gorman.

(Critics consider that Yeats connected nineteenth century to twentieth - century poetry in the same way as Picasso connected them for painting.)

As a painter, Monahan has been influenced by expressionist artists as diverse as Camille Souter, Jack B Yeats and Pablo Picasso, and by both the layering and abstract structures of CubisAs a painter, Monahan has been influenced by expressionist artists as diverse as Camille Souter, Jack B Yeats and Pablo Picasso, and by both the layering and abstract structures of Cubisas diverse as Camille Souter, Jack B Yeats and Pablo Picasso, and by both the layering and abstract structures of Cubisas Camille Souter, Jack B Yeats and Pablo Picasso, and by both the layering and abstract structures of Cubism.

Todays temperature is in fact as high as any in the last 2000 yeats.

Nduli was a partner with Durban - based Cox Yeats Attorneys from 2005, before joining NRF as an associate in 2011, progressing to director in 2013, and securing his promotion to partner with this latest move.