Sentences with phrase «autobiographical account»

It contains nine chapters, each beginning with a brief autobiographical account of formative moments in Judt's intellectual or personal development.

According to the brief autobiographical account sometimes appended to her speaking programs, it was the result of her first contact with the spirit world, which occurred when she was nine years old in a meadow near her bucolic childhood home in upstate New York.

(For a couple of autobiographical accounts along these lines, see the introductions to Donald Dayton's Discovering an Evangelical Heritage and Jim Wallis's Agenda for Biblical People.)

In fact, if one wants to trace the historical development and the various struggles the issue of pluralism and dialogue faced in the non-Catholic ecumenical movement, Samartha's recent autobiographical account [59] is one of the best sources.

This is what happened to molecular biologist Robert Sinsheimer, whose autobiographical account, The Strands of Life, is the latest in the Sloan Foundation's Science Book Series.

In her new book, Haldol and Hyacinths, Iranian - American author and activist Moezzi presents a captivating autobiographical account of her struggle with bipolar disorder.

Hank is stuck reading Tyler's screenplay but discovers some talent under that head of hair, even though the script appears to be disturbingly autobiographical account of the author's relationship with Becca.

It follows the story of a young woman who resides in Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital and her own autobiographical account of her life during the upheavals of the»20s and»30s.

Nelson Mandela's 1995 autobiographical account provides the basis for this biopic adaptation about his political life, at least as it existed up through the time of its writing.

In her wonderful autobiographical account One Writer's Beginnings, my favorite storyteller, Eudora Welty, says about her craft, «What discoveries I've made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general.»

So I am very excited to share that Lemony Snicket's «authorized autobiographical account of his childhood» will come out on October 23, with a first printing of one million copies.

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.

Conversely, any effective autobiographical account makes use of the elements of fiction: character focus, action, dialogue, scene construction, narrative structure, conflict and resolution.

The viewer must consider this exhibition as a love letter, begun 20 years ago as a road trip from Toronto to New Orleans, an intimate autobiographical account of a broken love affair between a man and a woman, which originally appeared last year as a critically acclaimed photobook.

First, there is Merton the Contemplative, who emerges in the 1948 autobiographical account of his conversion to Catholicism and entrance into a Trappist monastery, The Seven Storey Mountain.

Again, as we can see from the autobiographical account Descartes gives us in his seminal Discourse on the Method of Rightly Directing One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences, the quest for certain and secure foundations began, as it had with Hobbes, in part as a stay against the confusion and violence born of religious conflict.

Yet Browning sees no way to proceed in this task with the necessary rigor, so he resorts to an autobiographical account of how various inquiries gained importance for him in the course of his intellectual pilgrimage.

It's actually an autobiographical account about his own incredible experience in North Korea in the late»50s — a love story between himself and a North Korean Red Cross nurse.

In terms of getting the real scoop of the trials and tribulations of Billy Hayes in Turkey, it would probably be better to read the autobiographical account, as Stone has changes so much for the film version.

Preceding Silence in Scorsese's unofficial «Faith» trilogy is Kundun, his autobiographical account of the 14th Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet (The Last Temptation of Christ came first).

Saintly Willem Dafoe and evil Tom Berenger (the enormous scar across his face gives it away) vie for grunt Charlie Sheen's soul in director Oliver Stone's autobiographical account of his time in Vietnam.

He was portraying Harvey Pekar, author of the underground comic series «American Splendor,» autobiographical accounts of an ordinary and, yes, depressing life.

Jacobs's autobiographical account of her harrowing childhood and young adulthood was so detailed in its depiction of the horrors she had endured that many readers thought it must be a work of fiction.

This is an autobiographical account of Michelle Kwan's rise to figure skating fame.

Hillary Clinton has finally released an autobiographical account of the November 2016 election that did not result in her victory, and the political... [Read more...]

Hillary Clinton has finally released an autobiographical account of the November 2016 election that did not result in her victory, and the political dogs have been loosed.

An autobiographical account of British - Bangladeshi, Haleema Begum and her struggle to find her identity within the constraints of culture, religion and society...

Also included is an autobiographical account of the artist's life, which offers an intimate view of her creative development.

The title of the exhibition references Gerald Durrell's autobiographical account, My Family and Other Animals, The exhibition, at Victoria Miro's Mayfair gallery, runs from 13 October until 19 december and is accompanied by a catalogue with a text by Kirsty Bell.

In 1982 she published an autobiographical account of her childhood entitled A Project by Louise Bourgeois: Child Abuse.

The book featured an autobiographical account written in the third person of the artist's process and development.