Sentences with phrase «at typewriters»

This is a cosy world turned upside down, in which malcontent fortysomethings find themselves unsatisfyingly addicted to Google, Twitter and Netflix while retro - hip twentysomethings read books, listen to vinyl, bang away at typewriters and binge on 80s VHS tapes («It's like everything we threw out — except it looks good...»)

In May of 1969, a 38 - year - old Warren Buffett sat down at a typewriter to inform his investors that he was closing his fund (then...

My thanks go to my secretary, Sharon Massengale, for her skill at the typewriter, and to my graduate assistant, Cecil Taylor, for his skill in research.

I don't have that much discipline to be a good writer; I have to sweat things through — I kind of bleed at a typewriter.

With this strength in mind, he sat down at his typewriter and began tapping out an argument for full - fledged animal studies to examine phytic acid's potential for protecting against heart disease and cancer.

The scene jump - cuts through a succession of girls at the typewriter.

Stoned at his typewriter or at writers» meetings, Stahl found in the irony of his addiction a curious energy that made him seem like a genius to others.

Hoult is as good as anyone could be in the part of a man staring at his typewriter.

We repeatedly see Salinger struggling at the typewriter, dramatically pounding away at the keys, and immediately is followed by him telling friends that he's struggling to write.

A warm and affectionate look at the typewriter, those who still cling to it and those who collect them.

But it's not long before her underwritten life (she has no job or friends) and Calvin's jealousy and fear of abandonment kick in, and he's back at his typewriter literally changing her.

In other words, the writer has a work ethic and has trained himself to sit at a typewriter or computer for more hours per day.

Terry Whalin presents Move Beyond Bleeding on the Page posted at The Writing Life, saying, «It's been said that writing is just sitting at the typewriter and bleeding on the page.

The scale of Pottermore's vision won't be realised with one person's lonely tapping away at a typewriter.

Although my eyes became red and strained after about three hours darting from her typed page to the computer screen and back, I reminded myself of Margaret at her typewriter for years, pouring out her heart and soul, trying to make sense of what was happening to her.

William S. Burroughs at typewriter fixing «Yage Letters» typescript, New York, 1953 11 x 14 inches Gelatin silver print; printed later

When you sit at your typewriter writing books, it is all in your imagination, there isn't even that illusion.

When's the last time you sat down at a typewriter — years?

As sports columnist Red Smith deadpanned, it's easy to write well, «you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.»

It is easy enough to understand that what we produce at a typewriter and what we produces at a computer keyboard may both be forms of writing.

Back in the old days when you decided to look for a new job, you sat down at a typewriter with some 80 - pound paper and began click - clacking away.

Perhaps another example would be learning the Qwerty keyboard, never having sat at a typewriter, much less learning to type at a high rate of speed, error - free of course.

Not exact matches

And he was looking at the keyboard on the typewriter and looking for a symbol that wasn't very much used and» @» fulfilled that function.

The notes, found at the farmhouse along with a typewriter Provenzano was believed to have used to write them, later became the basis of a book by Sicilian best - selling author Andrea Camilleri.

Would Bill Gates have succeeded at Microsoft if he had thought of a computer as an oversized typewriter?

The user can type out the text, and then tap the button at the top to change the font to styles including Modern, Neon, Typewriter, and Strong.

Goal: by 1-1-81, NO typewriters at Apple... We believe the typewriter is obsolete.

After a brief stint at Woman's College in North Carolina and a few years teaching «social ethics» at the Hartford Seminary, the relentless clacking of Berger's typewriter earned him a return ticket to the New School in 1963.

Hugh was struggling to support his growing family... And there was I, absolutely stuck in bucology, with the washing machine freezing at least once a week, the kitchen never above 55 degrees when the wind blew from the northwest, not able to write until after my little ones were in bed, by which time I was so tired that I often quite literally fell asleep with my head on the typewriter.»

The whole monkeys (ha) with typewriters ending up writing Shakespeare at some point thing.

He leveled a ridiculing swipe at the U.S. project: «It may seem unwise for one British pen to compete with the massed typewriters of the United States.»

In 1873, when Japan suppressed feudalism and was turning Westward and the Remington typewriter was invented, Legge returned from China to become professor of Chinese at Oxford.

Franz Rosenzweig wrote The Star of Redemption, pointing one letter at a time with a single finger to the letters on a typewriter while his wife pressed down the keys.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

O'Connor's regimen was to sit at her manual typewriter for two or three hours and follow her characters around.

The Professor is at his desk, squatting on his swivel chair in a Yoga posture (asana), concentrating on a single point, the «0» key on his typewriter.

Opponents of the view that chance has any part to play in the order of nature tried to ridicule it in the famous analogy of the typewriting monkeys, asking if a million monkeys banging at random on a million typewriters could by chance produce one of Shakespeare's plays.

Instead of a million monkeys banging at random on a million typewriters, imagine a million, indeed billions of blind painters each sprinkling a few splashes of color on billions of canvases, one before each painter.

According to the infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters at The Daily Mail, we have apparently offered

According to the infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters at The Daily Mail, we have apparently offered Alexis Sanchez a new # 300,000 a week deal to keep him at The Emirates.

«Currently, some forms are still required to be typed, so we do still have typewriters, but the vast majority of Department forms are now digitized,» Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a state Senate hearing earlier this month.

Immersed at a depth of 8 meters in Grenada, a man sits at his desk, his hands hovering over the typewriter, poised in eternal deliberation.

I started at Spectrum, I had an IBM Selectric typewriter to write stories.

A lapsed American, Jenny appears occasionally on TV, radio, documentaries, podcasts, live panels and in print as a science / lit / art / culture pundit, tweets as @jennyrohn and blogs about the scientific lifestyle at Mind the Gap on Occam's Typewriter.

That typewriter was a steal — just found it at a junk fest a few months ago for $ 35!

With vintage touches like soft gold candelabras as centerpieces, and a cute typewriter and vintage suitcase at the gift and guest book tables, Julia and Braden created a softly romantic summer wedding, perfectly suited to their personalities.

Based on the keys of a vintage typewriter, this set offers limitless opportunities for creative expression that's at once contemporary and classic.

I picked up this old typewriter at a town wide garage sale last weekend.

At the same time the film was not too fancy and stayed true to its period with typewriters, cassette tapes and Polaroid cameras.

With his chin - forward stance and ready - for - action manner, Hanks seems utterly at home amid the typewriter clatter of production designer Rick Carter's newsroom sets.