Sentences with phrase «as essayists»

Also featured: Spencer Finch, Gelitin and Mark Wallinger, as well as essayists Paul Bonaventura, Mark Godfrey, Glenn O'Brien, Katy Siegel, Andrea Scott and Pamela Lee, to name a few.

As essayist Katha Pollitt points out, the tendency to ascribe «particular virtues — compassion, patience, common sense, nonviolence — to mothers» is an overdone, and in some ways oppressive, cliché; telling yourself that toilet training a string of two - year - olds is good for your soul may keep you away from other worlds.

Until now, Cuomo has stood firm on the tax, even — as essayist George Marlin noted in these pages yesterday — comparing his position to his father's principled opposition to the death penalty, though the public clamored for it.

«Saving Private Ryan» says things about war that are as complex and difficult as any essayist could possibly express, and does it with broad, strong images, with violence, with profanity, with action, with camaraderie.

by Walter Chaw My opinion of Dave Barry is that as an essayist, he's no P.J. O'Rourke, and as a novelist, he's no Carl Hiaasen — anyone who agrees to have Harry Anderson play him on a weekly sitcom is begging to have his work re-evaluated through that prism.

Understanding this will permit you, as the essayist, to verify that the tone of the composed piece is exceptionally expert and free from the utilization of jokes or individual tales.

The two share a dedication to the diversity of New York City and, in his introduction to the fully illustrated catalog, he describes her as an essayist on canvas.

As an essayist, Halley has also written about the prison cell as a metaphor for modern isolation.

Similarly, as essayist Litia Perta writes, these works «urge us to consider ways in which objects might also be responding.»

Hoeber's quest to combine conceptualist strategies (mind) with the physical desire to create that which is experiential (body) points to his larger desire to «have it both ways», or as essayist Luc Sante noted recently about Hoeber's work, to have «both the rabbit and the duck».

Yet, throughout his long career as essayist and art critic for The New Yorker, Rosenberg looked for and saw what others did not.

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Anyway, by the time of his death he had probably already achieved as much as he might reasonably have hoped: He had been a certified naval physician, an explorer, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, an ethnographer, a linguist, a sinologist, an aesthetic theorist, and a few other things besides.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

Holmes» equally talented father, an innovating physician and essayist, portrayed his son as The Young Astronomer, brilliant but aloof from the lives of others.

And yet, as Paul Tillich notes, it is not uncommon to find Christian essayists who develop concepts of «The Politics of God» or «The Kingdom of God» in such a way that they seek a political order in which «powerless love» overcomes «loveless power.»

In fact, from the tone of the rest of his writings, such as when he expresses his appreciation for the American farmer and essayist Wendell Berry, one can only conclude that he advocates a far more pastoral ecclessiology than most would prefer today.

As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»

Most of the essayists, but not all, see attempts to clone humans as, at the least, very problematic morally.

Thirty - two Muslim essayists affirm conventional Western liberal doctrines such as the separation of church and state, the equal rights of women, and freedom of thought and speech.

Now as to why Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed the essayist makes a very valid and erudite point.

This was Ella Mills, the nourishment essayist behind Deliciously Ella and top of the line writer of apparently the best craze eat less cookbook arrangement as of late.

The voice most closely associated with the Olympics is that of 80 - year - old Jim McKay, who joins NBC as a guest essayist during the Salt Lake City Games.

Similar views were held by Rhazes, Avicenna and Averroes — the Arabian Schools and ahead from the 14th till the early 17th century by medical essayist such as Bagellardus, Metlinger, Roesslin, Muffet, Phayer and de Vallambert and are referred even in the current literature.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

As one of our essayists comments, a science policy career is still a science career.

I am not so suspicious as to suppose that all essayists are opinionated self - publicists, but why else would anyone choose a medium that commands so little respect in the academic community and, at the same time, is so easily abused?

Sandstone Sojourns Arches National Park, Utah Famed environmental advocate and essayist Edward Abbey lived and worked in Utah's Arches National Park as a ranger in the 1950s.

Remaining an indefatigable writer and essayist into the 1990s, Vidal has reiterated his love affair with movies on several occasions, notably in his 1992 volume Screening History and as contributor to Past Imperfect (1995), a book about Hollywood's slant on historical facts.

At once blunt and razor sharp, the renowned essayist reportedly uttered the words in 1979 on a flight from Los Angeles to Sacramento, her hometown and frequent subject of her writing, just as the valley's patchwork of farming fields — an iconic depiction that instantly conveys the region's humble, hardworking roots — was coming into view.

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.

Columbus: In this drama about the unique friendship between a young woman (Haley Lu Richardson) and the son of an architecture scholar (John Cho) in the improbable architectural mecca of Columbus, Ind., video essayist Kogonada lovingly captures the distinctive buildings themselves, but is even better at understanding those places as they affect people.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

More generally, Flores has jeopardized the future of the adequacy law suit, a trend already in place at the state level (as a number of essayists in our volume point out).

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.

As the title of her new collection suggests, essayist (Bad Feminist, 2014) and novelist (An Untamed State, 2014) Gay tells intimate, deep, wry tales of jaggedly dimensional women.

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Once back in the States, she embarked on a thirty - year career in Human Resources and a secondary career as writer / journalist / essayist / author.

A widely published critic and essayist, Edward Nawotka serves as a speaker, educator and consultant for institutions and businesses involved in the global publishing and content industries.

He's the author of two books of poetry, Swing in The Hollow (2002) and Two Bits (2007), and co-author of a collection of short fiction (Cars, 2002); he has also published widely as a journalist and essayist, and has produced, written and performed radio monologues and documentaries about blindness for the CBC.

Damn Yankees brings together 24 essayists to explore the club's history, its players and the reasons why — as the book's subtitle tells us — the Yankees are the world's most loved and hated team.

The author of a book of poetry and co-author of a collection of short fiction, Knighton has also published widely as a journalist and essayist.

Rankine, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is playwright and essayist as well as poet, and all three forms are present in her second, galvanizing «American Lyric,» following Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004).

Over and over again, she and the other contributors stress the importance of reading good work, as well as writing it, and the aspiring poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, creative nonfiction writer — or simply curious reader who relishes good writing — could do no better than to begin with In Fact.

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The festival is also known as the Istanbul Tanpinar Literary Festival, for the poet, essayist, parliamentarian and novelist Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901 - 1962).

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Nash, a noted Diebenkorn scholar, served as co-curator and essayist for Diebenkorn's much - lauded retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in 2013, and has contributed to the artist's forthcoming catalogue raisonné.

The final group is defined, according to «Four Generations» essayist Joost Bosland, as artists «connected to the African continent by birth or recent family history.»

Join artist Teresita Fernandez and essayist Eliot Weinberger for a discussion of the artist's MASS MoCA exhibition and accompanying publication As Above So Below.

The elusive theater of portraiture itself is a persisting force in Neel's work through the years, as well as its ability to «collapse time and chronology,» a power Als aligns with the essay genre itself before suggesting Neel might be considered an «essayist of the canvas,» and a deeply moral one at that.