Sentences with phrase «as a novelist who»

Some information about each of these troubled, talented men: F. Scott Fitzerald (1896 - 1940) Fitzgerald is best known as a novelist who portrayed, and indeed coined the term, the Jazz Age.

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Playing as a novelist who finds himself trapped in a storyline of his own creation, the game blends intense psychological horror with frantic action as you use light to battle back shadowy forces.

Not exact matches

You'd be hard - pressed to name another novelist who has anywhere near the international recognition as Joanne Rowling.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

Recently, three outstanding crime novelists have turned directly to the church for inspiration, presenting amateur detectives who are, in vocation as well as in spirit, priests.

I would argue that Kierkegaard is rightly seen as one of the great «novelists» who sees human culture clearly and penetratingly.

Gordon is often billed as a Catholic novelist who is fashionably apostate.

The Marxist - Leninist vision of the future — what Czech novelist Milan Kundera described as «organized forgetting» — is now supplanted by a leader who knows that remembering is redemptive, that human dignity is finally an expression of the inexpressible mystery.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

Who but a madman or a prophet would have imagined, as novelist Walker Percy did, that a whole industry of profitable «Qualitarian Centers» would spring up, where, as one of Percy's characters explained, doctors would respect «the right of an unwanted child not to have to endure a life of suffering»?

Leon Kass's Jefferson lecture, as I said before, needs to be read with the lectures of two of his predecessors - the philosopher of manliness Harvey Mansfield and the novelist of manliness Tom Wolfe - as a most instructive way of being introduced to the question «Who is a man?»

Ishiguro, who after three novels has already been hailed as «one of the leading figures in the new generation of British novelists,» might seem an unlikely successor to Forster in the Merchant - Ivory corpus.

The Nobel Prize is only the latest honor for Saul Bellow, who has already won three National Book Awards and so now becomes the most rewarded American novelist, as he has long been the most rewarding.

Even artists who do things that are clearly and distinctively Christian, such as the novelist Walker Percy, are frequently rejected as «unsuitable» by some Christians because their works do not toe to one or another line of orthodoxy.

Here he is introducing Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Evelyn Waugh's grandson, Alexander: Here is the story of four generations of Waughs, told with wit and brio... [it] reveals aspects of the novelist's poisonous relationship with his father, Arthur, that have never been given adequate attention... The book opens with a portrait of Arthur's father, Alexander, otherwise known as «the Brute» who... with his booming voice... and mad, piercing eyes... terrified family and associates alike.

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first gained a following on American college campuses as a cult figure for young readers who identified with his comic and pessimistic view of the world.

As the late British novelist Susan Ertz observed, «Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.»

Social historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social sciences.

The peer and novelist, who boasts on his website that he has «never had a proper job», will attempt to win support for the bill in the upper chamber, where it may run into trouble as it is opposed by both Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Famed former Manhattan sex - crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein, a best - selling novelist who in 2007 wrote a Vanity Fair column about wanting to make a movie with Weinstein, worked as a consultant for the mogul after he was accused of groping the Italian model.

One of Tony's most successful proteges was the novelist Robert Harris, who invited him to Cambridge as president of both the University Fabian Society, and then of the Union.

Bunch of good stuff in the Riverdale Press this week, including this story about 50th Precinct cop Matthew Delaney who moonlights as a crime novelist and this story about the complicated battle for control of the 15 - building, 234 - unit Sholem Aleichem housing complex in Van Cortlandt Village.

Historical novelist Naomi Mitchison, daughter and sister of the two great Haldane scientists, also sees part of the function of SF as warning: «Who better to bring the disasters which we are making for ourselves forcibly home to voters and opinion - makers than committed SF writers?»

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) stars as Will, a graphic novelist and teacher who discovers his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his children (Stephanie Allynne) cheating on him on his daughter's fifth birthday.

A TV executive (Kate Jackson) is shocked to discover that her husband is having an affair with a male novelist (Harry Hamlin), who comes on to him but then leaves him, just as quickly, with his marriage in a precarious state.

In this dramatic comedy, Zooey Deschanel stars as a struggling twenty - something actress who goes in search of her legendary, reclusive novelist father and must wrestle with his unconventional new family and their shared past.

As the two reconnect, Bernard falls in love with Huey's estranged daughter Zelda (Mae Whitman), an aspiring graphic novelist who's got a seductive new creative

This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd - Hayes — who is portrayed by John Carradine as an active participant in his own tales.

As the two reconnect, Bernard falls in love with Huey's estranged daughter Zelda (Mae Whitman), an aspiring graphic novelist who's got a seductive new creative partner, Conrad (Eka Darville).

Based on the work of celebrated novelist H.P. Lovecraft, this film showcases Vincent Price, playing dual roles as both a warlock burnt in 1765 and his descendant, who arrives to take up residence at the family estate generations later.

I think that novelist - now - screenwriter Emma Donoghue originally wanted to present an ironic counterpoint for a character who is manic and crazed from seven years as a sex - slave captive (five of them as a mother), oublietted away in some freak's (Sean Bridgers, who already played this role in Lucky McKee's The Woman) garden shed.

The novelist behind the movie - who died in 2013 - wrote 14 books about Rapp and it is unclear as yet how many films the series will spawn.

The title role is brilliantly played by Paul Muni who gives us a flawless picture of the famous French novelist, a screen portrait as realistically and finely done as Mr. Muni's characterization of Pasteur in «The Story of Louis Pasteur.»

But Sally's marriage to Roy (Josh Brolin) is in its own trouble; he's a novelist who hasn't been able to live up to the promise of his first book, and isn't doing much in the way of providing for their future, so she ends up going back into the workforce as the assistant to Greg (Antonio Banderas), a handsome gallery owner.

The script is by novelist Fielding, Dan Mazer, and — surprise — Emma Thompson, who gets the film's sharpest laughs as Bridget's nonplussed obstetrician.

Letts, who was 76, was a highly regarded novelist (as well as a teacher and...

HappyThankYouMorePlease stars Josh Radnor as Sam, an up - and - coming novelist living in New York City who is struggling to sell his first manuscript.

He garnered much acclaim with his third film «Listen Up Philip,» which stars Jason Schwartzman as an abrasive writer who moves in with a veteran novelist (Jonathan Pryce) in order to escape his shaky relationship with his girlfriend (Elizabeth Moss).

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Adapted from English novelist Thomas Hardy's desperately romantic 1874 novel, this remake stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong beauty Bathsheba Everdine who rejects a marriage proposal and makes her way through a thicket of sensual encounters — all set against the wild English countryside.

All that said, Ex Machina is easily one of the best films of the year so far and a remarkable directorial debut for Garland, who's made a name for himself as a novelist and screenwriter for some 15 years now.

Agatha Christie, who died in 1976 aged 85, is cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the bestselling novelist of all time.

Gore Vidal, born and raised as a member of the East Coast American political aristocracy, was a respected novelist, essayist, and outspoken liberal commentator who used his wit to provoke and satirize.

On to our main character, Jackson Curtis, a failed science - fiction novelist named for 50 Cent and played by John Cusack, who seems to have an ongoing bet with his agent as to which movie can miscast him most thoroughly.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

Host Derek Waters and comedian Alison Rich dive into the troubling disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie, with Dunst as Christie and Plemons as the constable who looks into her vanishing act.