Sentences with phrase «at a novel by»

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It works by examining how much time subjects spend looking at certain «novel» images within a series of images over a period of four and a half minutes.

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

The cyberattack that knocked hundreds of Japanese school networks offline had at least one novel feature: It was allegedly instigated by a student.

Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of 21 undergraduate students all tasked with reading the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris.

At the end of the three - week challenge, Chris successfully completed his novel and uploaded it to Amazon, where its Kindle sales rankings quickly rose, fueled by an appeal he made to his email subscribers.

Indeed, if you listen on occasion to O'Leary's turns on the radio, you may observe he speaks at times like a character out of a novel by the libertarian author Ayn Rand.

The Manhattan Bridge was novel in its engineering, particularly in comparison to the Williamsburg Bridge, the New York Times highlighted in a report at the time, as the bridge's structural design limited movement caused by elements such as wind.

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?

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.

We see this monster in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, where a theocratic patriarchy forbids women to read books, and we see him in the movie Kinsey, in which the future sexologist's pompous, teetotaling, Bible - wielding father (played by the massive - browed John Lithgow) cows his wife at the dinner table and disowns his son for daring to attend a different college from the one where dad teaches.

He works, at the beginning of the novel, at a Chicago bookstore, but he can't shake his calling; strangers will unload their anxieties on them, struck by a supernatural confessional urge.

It's just too easy to start with a gibe at The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer's new attempt to retell the life of Jesus as a novel narrated by its hero, the Son of God Himself.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman:: Neil Gaiman re-released one of his quintessential novels this year and I picked it up at the library.

The problem raised by any literal reading of the Category of the Ultimate may be put this way: how can an actual occasion be at once the creative synthesis of and a novel addition to the many occasions of its correlative universe?

For the novel occasion created by the advance from disjunction to conjunction, Whitehead tells us, «is at once the togetherness of the «many» which it finds, and also it is one among the disjunctive «many» which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes.

Next year will see at least two major theological novels: Exit 36, by Robert Capon, and Protocol for a Damnation, by Peter Berger; the Capon chronicle has already been bought as a mass - market paperback for five figures.

The possibility of radically different behavior due to completely novel characters or circumstances is taken into account by the very fact that any predictions about the future are regarded as at best probable.

When George Orwell published a novel about totalitarianism in 1948, he arrived at its title by simply reversing the last two digits of that year, so that the date became 1984.

During that time, sharing is the key — talking, listening to the rain, or reading a sexy novel together, taking a walk along a stream, eating by candlelight — whatever both mates find relaxing, satisfying, and at least a little romantic.

Book Review: The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy (Farrar Straus Giroux, 372 pp., $ 17.95) Walker Percy's sixth novel, The Thanatos Syndrome (Farrar Straus Giroux, 372 PP., $ 17.95), is at once his most thrilling and most disappointing book.

At one point in the novel, «Mrs.. Who» (played by Oprah Winfrey in the film) even quotes the Gospel of John, «And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.»

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

But «impression» is primarily a passive term, and therefore not a good paraphrase for «prehension»: «grasping at» is better.11 A novel entity «becomes» by grasping at the influences surrounding it: in grasping at each such influence it incorporates something of its environment into itself, so that the novel entity is the growing together into a unity of all its graspings at the influences comprising its environment.

Their former emotional or feeling characters are more or less conformally repeated in the immediate occasion, modified only by the relevant, novel potentials of character aimed at by the subject (PR 162/246).

While absolute certainty is, of course, impossible at this late date, non-Mormon scholars are pretty well convinced that its basis was an historical novel by a one - time Presbyterian clergyman by the name of Spaulding, which he intended calling The Manuscript Found in the Wilds of Mormon or, Unearthed Records of the Nephites.

Since the real being of an occasion is the becoming of a harmonized integration of the multiplicity, its components stem either immediately from God or from what it prehends; since what it prehends are other occasions, themselves analyzable into novel and prehended features, it can be suggested that every feature at some time in the present or past is or was a spontaneous novel pattern or value immediately created by God.

But nationalism and cultural issues were more important: irritation at a loss of sovereignty to Brussels; worries about the effects of mass immigration; resentment of a cosmopolitan elite that demeans local ways; a creeping sense of social disorder, epitomized by recent satires like Martin Amis's 2012 novel Lionel Asbo: State of England.

Outlander: A Novel by Diane Gabaldon — I have several friends who have recommended this series to me for years now so I picked it up at our used bookstore and took it on our family holiday to Colorado.

So all I could muster up by way of reply, at least for that moment, was: «Well, they're both American writers of novels, they both won the Nobel Prize, and they're both dead.»

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.

At Light on Dark Water, conversation about a luminous novel: Pilgrim's Inn, by the mid-20th-century English writer Elizabeth Goudge....

The future of the universe at any stage of its history is conditioned by the past and awaits the spontaneity of the novel occasions as in their season they come into being.

Furthermore, whatever our aesthetic and theological misgivings about the Left Behind phenomenon, we do the Christian community no favors by failing to take an honest and sympathetic look at the underlying apocalypticism to which such novels respond.

But let's say I am extremely well - catechised and refer to my sins with the chilling self - awareness of a character in a Graham Greene novel, while you are perplexed by the Church's teaching and are currently overburdened with stress at work, which makes it hard to think straight.

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4 broadcast on Saturday, Mr. Rushdie spoke of the parallels between the anger at his novel and the past week's violent protests by fundamentalist Muslims offended at the trailer for a crude film mocking the prophet.

At the end of the novel Rose, comforted by the thought that Pinkie's love for her may have saved him, is on her way to play the recording and to discover the quality of that love.

Prehending at each moment the new actualizations created by the world is necessary in order to establish a novel subjective aim for God.

The process of separation, transition, and reintegration occurs in terms of the disruption of a steady state at or near equilibrium, which brings matter increasingly far from equilibrium to a point at which a «decision» is made between alternative possibilities randomly presented by its environment, resulting in its reorganization in novel emergent form.

His main argument is that the prehension (by God) of the «many» must, in God's case also, lead to an «increased by one» and, therefore, to a new entity («Whitehead's Novel Intuition,» Alfred North Whitehead Essays on his Philosophy, edited by George Kline [Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice - Hall, 1963], 18 - 26, at 23).

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

It might even be called «radical,» if by this we intend what the word itself indicates: that is, a getting at the roots of our tradition and then a seeking to discover ways in which these may be adapted to and used in a new age with its own particular questions and its own novel opportunities.

I composed lines of this post in my head as I went to bed last night, which was clearly productive (sarcasm) as I remember none of them and is most definitely a bad way to lull yourself to sleep because I woke from a stress nightmare at 4 am in which I was under deadline to read two novels and write three 15 - page papers by today, all while attending a full day of classes.

At the micro-level, the food and agribusiness sector is seeing an increase in the virulence of microorganisms and parasites, known pathogens spreading to novel geographies, and the continued rise of antimicrobial resistance.67 Global use of antimicrobials in livestock is expected to rise by 67 % by 2030 to 105,596 tons.68 China's livestock industry alone could soon be consuming almost one third of the world's available antibiotics.

Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman, is an entertaining, yet real to life, novel about things not going the way we hoped they would, and how to find true happiness at the end of the tunnel.

It was a novel idea at the time, and today many parents consider it a necessity to know what's in a movie before paying and perhaps even more important risking disappointment by having to walk out with the kids in tow.

What is your favourite book?A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, a sequence of 12 novels that look at political, military and cultural life over a 50 - year period in the 20th century through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Jenkins.

Adapted for the screen by William Kennedy from his Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, Ironweed was filmed at several Albany locations and brought international attention to the Capital Region and earned Oscar nominations for both Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.

«They are entitled to be detained safely... not consigned to a corrections crucible that seems more inspired by «Lord of the Flies» than any legitimate philosophy of humane detention,» added Bhahara, comparing prison life at the East River island nestled between The Bronx and Queens to William Golding's 1954 novel about a group of shipwrecked British teens who try governing themselves on a deserted island with deadly results.

At the official launch of Leo, UBA's Chat Banker, which took place in Lagos on Thursday, customers of the bank were given a step by step demonstration on the novel way of delivering lifestyle and quality banking through the Facebook Messenger chat platform.