Sentences with phrase «at prose»

Before joining the Little Folks team, Caitlin taught for 3 years at a PROSE (Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence) school in Brooklyn, NY.

I have a decently - sized community of self - publishers at Prose on Fire, and it's easy to separate the serious writers from the hobbyists.

She blogs weekly about writing, publishing, marketing, and storytelling at Prose on Fire.

He would giggle at the prose and pictures (the book was often banned because it showed the boy's genitals).

Three members at PROSE schools addressed delegates about the changes at their schools at the Jan. 14 Delegate Assembly.

At 6 p.m., Farina delivers remarks at the PROSE end - of - year showcase, UFT Headquarters, 52 Broadway, Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Despite his penchant for flowery prose and, at times, odd metaphors in his popular monthly investment outlooks, Gross seems to have taken to the new media communication tool, posting a number of tweets in recent months that have even played into rap mogul - style feuds with well - known academics.

In this latest entry in the Little Book series, Bogle's gentle prose contains idiot - proof advice for investors at all levels.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

If you can not write in prose that has some measure of wit, best not to try at all... read some Shakespeare... he was a master of using the written word to express a wide variety of emotion and tone.

While the poems themselves may on occasion hint at this equation, the prose, which controls them and our understanding of them, eventually serves to release a secret: loving Beatrice was his way of finding Christ in his «new life» (a phrase that can hardly fail to bring to mind Paul's frequent insistence on our conversion from the old way of being to the new).

A quick glance at her sources reveals just how well - read and smart the author is, though her prose is not for a moment stilted or heavy - handed.

Much of the most important work they do» the articles they reject, the prose in accepted articles that they bring to high polish (or at least to intelligibility)» is known to but a few.

It tells good stories at a fast clip in limpid prose, with input from a dream team of fact - checkers including Yale law scholar Akhil Amar and Princeton historian James McPherson.

Similarly, to turn Augustine's poetic prose into verse, as Boulding does at several points, is to impose on the reader a literary self - consciousness that Augustine knew well but declined to use.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

Okay, here's a shorter way, for those of you who haven't the patience for my full cinemascopic link - littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate - modernity was the era of the self - repressing Oligarchic Soul, and «the....

Such prose could be translated back into the language of Psalms, which also allow for at - homeness in a bleak landscape.

Okay, here's a shorter way, for those of you who haven't the patience for my full cinemascopic link - littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity

It is at once clear that the original is characterized by rhyme and the whole Qur» an is either rhymed or assonance prose.

Having avoided contemporary fiction for most of my adult life, I at first could not believe what English prose had been reduced to, let alone that any reader could find the book's substantive claims remotely plausible.

Dillard's first two prose works, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper & Row, 1974) and Holy the Firm (Harper & Row, 1977), are reflections on the natural environment and on the qualities of human life engendered by living close to and listening to the natural order.

As a student of literature, I'd like to say that it is Austen's subtle satire, masterful character development, and nuanced prose that draws me to her romantic comedies... but at the end of the day, it's probably just the girly thrill of seeing who ends up marrying whom.

At times, Nadar's excessive prose frustrates, reaching a comic climax in his digression on «dynamography, chronography, desnigraphy, hypography, calorigraphy — all the graphies,» apropos of absolutely nothing in an entry on «The New President of the French Society of Photography.»

That initial work on narrative prose was greeted, at the time, as a breath of fresh air in what many considered a stuffy environment.

The letter contained in discursive prose form the heart of what was in the Theses, and what was at greater length and far more moderately in the Treatise.

I made fun of the snippets of prose I heard and wrinkled my nose at descriptions of the plot.

It must be said that it is a book whose rhetoric is flawed, and one finds it more than a little strange that the beautiful precision and economy that generally mark his prose in his work for The New Yorker and in his major books at so many points in his latest work give way to a profusion of jargon and a bloatedness of syntax that disfigure the whole.

not that I'm complaining...:) can't wait to see you at Politics and Prose in D.C.!

For those of you that won't cook without a recipe, please try, or at least enjoy this prose because the actual recipe posted below is just an approximation... not a bonafide, tested recipe suitable for publication, say, in a cookbook or magazine.

;) I waited in line at Politics and Prose for half an hour, until an employee announced that the book was sold out and it was unlikely we could get into the store.

Wow, what a well - deserved crowd at Politics & Prose last night!

I'm sad that there was such a long line at Politics & Prose but at the same time I'm so excited that the tour is going so well!

I was so excited to hear you on Diane Rehm's show yesterday, and even MORE excited to see you in person last night at Politics and Prose.

I hope to see you when you're at Politics & Prose in DC!

I look forward to the book signing at Politics & Prose in D.C. on November 12th!!

Have had a great time with you thus far online and looking forward to seeing you at Politics and Prose in DC.

It was so thrilling to see you speak at Politics & Prose in DC on your book tour.

Vecsey's clear - eyed prose hints at nostalgia without becoming maudlin as he presents Musial as the quintessential Eisenhower - era star: the approachable guy next door, not at all like the petulant Ted Williams or the icy Joe DiMaggio.

Paul will talk about How Children Succeed and sign books at Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW.

Pollan amazes me again and again, not just with his often beautiful prose (the kind of writing where you stop and reread a passage just for the pleasure of it) but with his ingenious way of looking at things, such as exploring how a corn plant manipulates humans, rather than the other way around.

In formal creative prose, you were taught — at least Mr. Pius Omole taught his University of Ibadan students, among whom was Ripples — that you knew the true character of a man, when the man was in crisis.

One can hardly be expected to produce pellucid prose and at the same time sort out the shambolic state of the country's benefits and pensions system.

Kelly has taught at the Annandale - on - Hudson college since 1961 and published more than 50 books of poetry and prose.

You may, at first, be shocked by the suggestion that you should use 60 % of your total project time to make the outline, 10 % to convert it to prose, and 30 % to revise.

During the day, I pound away at my keyboard — writing prose, sending e-mail, surfing through my usual routine of Web sites.

Carlson is the author of the book Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life, published in 2010 by Harvard University Press; it received the PROSE award for the Best Engineering and Technology Book of 2010 and was named to the Best Books of 2010 lists by writers at both The Economist and Foreign Policy.

Readers of Banks's prose will find in these poems many aspects of his writing with which they're already familiar: a humane and materialist sensibility, an unflinching stare at the damage people can do to each other, a warm appreciation of the joy they can give to each other, a revel in language, a geologically informed gaze on land and sea, a continued meditation on what it means for us to be mortal embodied minds with a fleeting but consequent existence between abysses of deep time.

I recently discovered Prose & Poetry at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boca Raton after stumbling upon this adorable top in the contemporary section.

Hope you had a fantastic time at the event xo Deborah Coffee, Prose, and Pretty Clothes