Sentences with phrase «attempt at a book»

When I was 22, I started my first attempt at a book, but I stopped.

Early attempts at book trailers have been around for years but usually have shied away from actors and production sets, said Liz Dubelman, owner of VidLit, a Santa Monica online site that promotes books with Flash Player clips and author narration.

Following yet another living, breathing attempt at book banning — this time in Boise, Idaho, where school board members voted to remove Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian — a student - led petition resulted in a major donation from the book's publisher.

But here I was, with just two weeks to write a book, and I didn't have any (good) Mr. Pants stories in the tank; just a discarded attempt at a book that was tentatively called The Camping Catastrophe.

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Not exact matches

My friends who read my first attempts at writing my book, years ago, struggled to tell me how unreadable it was, so I wasn't born with engaging writing.

Back in print to coincide with the show's fourth season, the book offers a look at the era's ad business that's unencumbered by the TV show's melodramatics and attempted profundity.

In sum, this book is to date the most comprehensive attempt at a critical examination of today's investment universe from the perspective of the Austrian School and deriving conclusions for investors from it.

This book attempts to answer these questions by looking at the innovators, entrepreneurs and inventors who changed our lives.

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

(My first attempt at this list had 14 books.)

This comes across, for example, in the book's attempt to locate the physical place where hell must be and its conclusion that it must be at the centre of the earth.

In her new book Women and Evil, Nell Noddings attempts to look at the problem of evil in a new light — a specifically feminine, or rather feminist, light.

In a published review of Hamburger's book, I wrote that while Hamburger «tries to convey the impression that separation represents only nativist, anti-Catholic, and ultrasecularist bigotry... [He fails to mention] that Catholic voters in Massachusetts, New York, California, and Michigan... have in recent years voted to reject attempts to remove state constitutional provisions aimed at preserving church - state separation.

tf: Did you once consider that maybe the reason it appears we speak out more against your god than other gods is because it is your gods believers that seem to be at the center of so much in this world??? I don't see Pagan's standing on street corners or attempting to use their holy books to deny equal rights.

In the introduction he makes no attempt to hide the fact that this book will portray the emergent church as at best an unsuitable marketing technique and at worst a contemporary form of liberalism.

For instance, Stephen Hawking's last book, The Grand Design, is nothing but another failed attempt at getting out of the solipsist state without God, although he doesn't acknowledge this, and I doubt he even realized it.

The book is actually a summary of the miseries of the «life of Jesus» movement, concluding with a trumpet call to scholars to renounce all further attempts at defining «the historical Jesus» and to return to the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels.

So first we attempt to enter and understand the story as the Book of Exodus relates it, at the stage when it achieved a written form.

Twenty years have passed since the first inclusive - language worship resources were published; most North American denominational hymnals or books of worship make some attempt at language revision.

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at world evangelism.

I would say there were led by the Holy Spirit, but really, they were led by a book on the Holy Spirit... (Yes, that's a lame attempt at a joke).

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at evangelism.

They sense the anti-Christian value system it carries and counsel believers to return to religious fundamentals which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays, and rock concerts, and attempts at censorship of media, especially films, TV, and books.

At one point, Athanasius attempted to limit the books of the Bible which could be used in the debate.

As Søren Kierkegaard noted in perhaps his most influential book, Fear and Trembling, if the story of Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son means anything it must signify that God transcends the categories (or at least our categories) of good and evil and that to follow the way of the Lord will eventually, at least for some select chosen ones, mean to renounce those norms.

But those books represent a serious attempt at maturity in another way, and perhaps that's a clue.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

Some of the attempts at measurement are reported in a book edited by Paul and Margaret Baltes, entitled Successful Aging: Perspectives From The Behavioral Sciences.

For this reader at least, this book shows above all that there is great need of careful, clarifying philosophical work by theologians and scientists before any ambitious «synthesis» is attempted.

At the same time Father Lionel Thornton published The Incarnate Lord and Dr W. R. Matthews The Purpose of God and other books; while in the United States Professor E. W. Lyman produced his great work on The Meaning and Truth of Religion, and other writers, far too numerous to mention, were attempting the same task.

I try to unravel some of the cultural aspects of the problem» the attempt to erect an empty «shrine» at the heart of western democracy» in the Spring 2012 issue of National Affairs, in an article whose title is taken from the Book of Daniel: «The Handwriting on the Wall.»

The authors looked at more than 2,500 books, articles, reports, and other documents in an attempt to derive an empirically based and comprehensive statement of the effects of television on human behavior.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

This book has been an attempt to present and explain a way of looking at ourselves, our world, and God which is characterized by an emphasis on «process.»

(ENTIRE BOOK) An attempt to establish what may be known with reasonable certainty of the teaching of Jesus, «an irreducible minimum of historical knowledge available to us at the present time» (1967).

Andrew had made a half - hearted attempt at following the Total Wellbeing Diet book.

With the surprise result we've seen today at Anfield where Swansea City wreak a havoc there today's afternoon against Liverpool to record the most against the form book away win there and ran away with all the three points at stake in the game, and also with the Stoke City attempts to end Man Utd 8 match unbeaten run in all matches but for Wayne Rooney's audacious last gap free kick equaliser that save Utd from bluses.

The Ballon d'Or holder's body position was such that he could very well have attempted to hit the far corner with an effort on his left football but, instead, he saw an unmarked and perfectly - positioned Javier Hernandez aching to be given his chance at etching his name into the Santiago Bernabeu memory books.

The governing bodies of the USGA and R&A are attempting to simplify the rule book to account for things like, you know, intent — but that won't take effect until 2019 at the earliest.

then these signs could only suggest that the delusional one is finally ripping up his old book and wiping his butt with it, in a last ditched attempt to freshen up his stinky ass at the club.

She would fill her bed with crap (books, pillows, anything she could find to fill half of it) in a desperate attempt to feel less alone at night.

I have pictorial evidence of Topsy and Tim's mum's last attempt at creating costumes for the twins, in one of the original 1960s / 70s books.

Remember, all the recipes in this book come from home cooks, so there's no reason you shouldn't be able to at least attempt these recipes.

He spent so much of the book saying the problem begins at home, then attempts to solve it by expanding Federal government.

Encourage your child's attempts at humor, whether it's reading (potentially unfunny) jokes from a book or drawing «funny» pictures of the family dog.

Have lots of books available, too, so he can look at the pictures or make an attempt to read the words.

Labour's attempts to reform libel failed to reach the statute book at the end of the last parliament after they became victims of the wash - up period.

The US publisher of an explosive new book exposing chaos behind the scenes at the White House has brought publication forward to Friday in defiance of an attempt by Donald Trump's lawyers to try to shut it down.

Perhaps Mr. Pataki's attempting to improve his standing in the history books by helping to ensure there's at least one governor capable of doing even more lasting damage to New York than he managed to inflict himself.