Sentences with phrase «as that novel did»

John Huston's Moby Dick starts out introducing a main character, as the novel does, with the famous line «Call me Ishmael», and then doesn't touch on him any further and begins a tale about a whaling ship.

Without spending as much time developing the character as the novel did, the movie's ending that doesn't feel quite as epic as it should.

KU adopted a more fair approach of paying per page which meant short stories no longer brought in the same payment per «read» as novels did.

«Resistance» has the same type of complex interplay between characters as that novel did.

It begins with Dickens (as this novel did, by the way, the opening word «tittlebat» being the link to Boz's PIckwick Papers) and his terrible tricoteuse, Madame Defarge, to establish a solid connection to knitting and death.

Not exact matches

Soylent's version of the Coffiest might not be as sinister as the novel's, but it does have more caffeine than a cup of coffee.

You don't have to write a novel, but this is a big deal, so treat it as such.

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

If you don't have any experience that you want to cash in on but have a knack for writing, say, sci - fi stories, then you can author and publish your novel on Amazon as well.

But the United States does not as yet have a process for authorizing or supervising novel endeavors like a private company landing on the moon.

A novel concept at the time, High Resolution Fundraising was put forth as a means to solve one of the hardest chicken - and - egg problems faced by nearly all fundraising companies: in an asset class historically dominated by social validation, how do you get someone to be your first investor?

It was novel for the New Democrats to come as close to power as it did recently, taking official Opposition status and then briefly flirting with a national lead in the polls.

The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

In their simultaneous desire to jettison the distasteful parts of Catholicism and keep the more palatable ones, American Catholics have done something novel and truly amusing: They have created a specific catalogue of complaints that resembles nothing so much as a Catholic version of the orphan with chutzpah.

Read «The Stand», «Insomnia», and «Pet Cemetary» so far, loved all of them and have a lot of catching up to do, and I find this very interesting as I plan on reading more of his novels.

One day, a girl named Jessica made the connection between herself and a work of literature that most of us are fortunate enough to make in comfortable circumstances, as I did, say, with the novels of Charlotte Brontë in high school.

Only in an actuality does the past become alive, and then not as the fact it once was but as an implicit constraint on a novel content.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

By the time the book is done — most of his novels are quite short — you may be feeling almost as if the memories are your own.

I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea of a person who sacrificially gives of himself for others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers great personal loss, but ultimately rises into glory,» is no coincidence.

Although the press kit does not mention it, an excellent book on the events that served as the basis for Moore's novel was published in 1996: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, edited by Richard J. Golsan (University Press of New England).

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»

Written as a novel, the book conveys a powerful sense of reality in the lives of people who are not sure what it was that they did and what it was that just happened to them.

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

Jeremy, you could write a novel, without any thing illicit being said or done, as Lewis did, about a man who found ways to talk about Jesus (Gods Grace you know what I mean) over and against the forces surrounding him.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless novels, a good many of them from those first - rate producers of the English detective novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.

In a novel's case, it's different — you're just cutting the fat: plots that don't need to be there, excessive descriptions, etc. (I work as a magazine editor so I've learned how to cut, cut, cut, without losing the point of the narrative.

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

Maybe King is a jerk, I don't know or care as long as he's not basing his novels on life experience.

I am not gonna comment on all these sick opinions,, I understand now that most of westerns oppose Islam, therefor they don't wan na hear anything good about it,, all they do they lie and believe their lies,, good for you guys but believe me no one in this world helps the US as Muslims do to the country in all important fields,, and please don't dare me to write novels what we've done to you and i am as a person from Saudi,, You should be thankful instead of your sick racist minds,, TRUST me no one can stop the huge flow of ISLAM anywhere,

A great novelist and great psychological observer such as Proust still does not give us the insight into the essence of man that we find in the novels of Dostoievsky and the poetry of Blake.

He says that «Luke sees the new community as something novel... [and] does not require a total link to the old era other than to share in the promise to which it has always looked.

gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.

The political objectives of the student revolutionaries of 1968, whether in Paris or Chicago, came to nothing, but there did take place a radical change in the sexual mores of the Western world, and the novels which followed The Professor's Daughter depict eros as Satan's weapon of choice.

Who but a madman or a prophet — or an artist who sees more deeply into things than the rest of us — would have imagined, as Percy did in a 1971 novel, that state governments might recognize a right to die, and that arrangements would be made for the sick and elderly to push a button that would waft them away into a «happy death» in Michigan, a «joyful exitus» in New York, or a «luanalu - hai» in Hawaii?

In this conversation between Ivan and Alyosha, we are in quite a different world from that suggested by Ivan's hypothesis as it is reported in the novel from time to time: «if God does not exist, then everything is permitted.»

There is a resurrection theme, but it has a pantheistic and humanistic tinge, as does the resurrection language at the end of the novel.

Of Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Walker says that «it speaks to me as no novel, past or present, has ever done.»

@Poltergeist — Not precisely sure of the intent of the original evolved ligase post or your response, but is it safe to say that this study, as with other in vitro evolution research, is proof of concept, i.e. random variation and selection can and does yield novel functionality?

Also, there are so many classic novels that I'm buying now because I didn't own any of my own as a young adult.

It is certainly not intended as an adequate account, but it does offer a rather novel perspective, and it is one that we shall draw on at other points in the present book.

I didn't love it as much as What Alice Forgot, but it's still a plain old good novel.

Second, if the prehension of the novel eternal object is, in fact, a hybrid prehension of God, then the new occasion should deal with it as it does with other hybrid prehensions.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

Novel forms emerge in the process; they do not exist nontemporally as a lure for the process.

(to be published this spring) does address in detail the reasons why books such as the Left Behind novels sell so well and why forms of dispensationalism continue to be so popular in America.

For example, the propositions expressed in the individual sentences of a novel do not cry out for judgment as to their truth or falsity.