Sentences with phrase «centuries great writers»

An interesting view from one of the twentieth centuries great writers.

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In the century just past, a whole host of great thinkers and writers (mostly Catholic, but not all of them) wrote on the proper way to live.

I think there was no greater prose stylist in English in the nineteenth century, no better storyteller, and no better travel writer.

All the historically significant spiritual writers who advocate frequent communion — one only has to think of the great St Francis de Sales in the late 16th and early 17th century — also stress the necessity for frequent confession and serious preparation.

They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

All in all this is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west.

It took me nineteen years of research and three books (The Final Revolution, Witness to Hope, and The End and the Beginning) to do what executive producer Carl Anderson and writer / director David Naglieri have done in ninety - three minutes of gripping videography and marvelous graphics: explain how and why John Paul played a pivotal, indeed indispensable, role in the greatest drama of the last quarter of the twentieth century, the collapse of European communism.

Literature receives scant attention: the Nobel Prize - winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz, one the greatest Arabic writers of this century, is missing, as are most other Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and other writers.

The greatest writer of English prose in the last century, P. G. Wodehouse excepted, was not Lytton Strachey or Logan Pearsall Smith or the E. M. Forster of Pharos and Pharillon or Hugh Trevor - Roper.

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

In the middle of the century just past, Mayne Reid was the great writer of books of out - of - door adventure.

The stories from the hand of this great ninth century writer are rapidly - moving narrative, but they are more.

But Baron von Hügel, a great writer on these subjects a century ago, held firmly that nothing significant is ever accomplished In a stampede.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

One day, I decided to include this quote from James Baldwin, the great 20th - century writer, who said, «I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.»

This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled «The Prince».

In a reappraisal of Wallace's book «The Malay Archipelago», also in Nature, the American nature writer David Quammen calls him «arguably the greatest field biologist of the nineteenth century».

Synopsis: This chronicle of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, J.D. Salinger, begins as he embarks on his writing career and enters into a tumultuous relationship with young starlet Oona O'Neill.

There are many great names attached to»70s drama 20th Century Women, from writer / director Mike Mills - Thumbsucker, Beginners - to the cast, which already boasts Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig.

Politics aside, these opening moments ensure one thing: writers David Simon and William F. Zorzi (ex-Baltimore Sun journalists and masterminds behind the greatest TV show of the century thus far, The Wire), director Paul Haggis (Crash, Third Person), and star Oscar Isaac (sizzling like a comet towards the A-list after his unforgettable turn in Inside Llewyn Davis) are going to make Show Me A Hero one of the most talked - about television events of the year through sheer artistic integrity.

However in David Constantine's short story «In Another Country,» which writer - director Haigh adapts for the screen, the lack of a more populous family makes Kate wonder whether she has wasted almost half a century of her life with nothing much to show for it, no great accomplishment, not even a child.

-- Reg Winstone examines the technical validity of Gabriel Voisin's swan song, the groundbreaking C28 Aérosport of 1935, and its extraordinary streamlined form / John Steinbeck, motoring writer — Kit Foster investigates the influence of the automobile on the works of the great 20th century American novelist, aided by extracts from Steinbeck's writings / The Green Goddess — At the 1948 Motor Show, a young Brian Sewell was captivated by the opulent Hooper - bodied Daimler DE36.

Motoring writer Kit Foster investigates the influence of the automobile on the works of the great 20th century American novelist, John Steinbeck, aided by extracts from Steinbeck's writings.

How many great painters, writers and musicians were failures during their lives, but wildly successful in the years and centuries following their deaths?

Quality professionals are worth their weight in gold, as attested by most of the greatest and most successful writers of the past few centuries.

The writers and estates it represents include many of the greatest names in 20th and 21st century literature.

Most of the great (as well as not so great) 19th century novelists needed that money in order to survive, and in fact that was part of the appeal of the serial format: it gave writers an additional income stream, before their full books went into print.

Clarice Lispector (1920 — 1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called «astounding» (Rachel Kushner), «a penetrating genius» (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and «a truly remarkable writer» (Jonathan Franzen).

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve «the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century»: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?

Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality, these stories confirm Johnson as one of America's greatest writers and an indispensable guide to our new century.

Clarice Lispector is undoubtedly one of the great writers of the past century.

It is a treasury of fiction by great writers of the past two centuries: Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

What is currently perceived to be the Russian literary tradition is simply a reflection of the great works of writers of the 19th and mid 20th Centuries.

This 9th century Greek writer penned the great epics the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut < br / > Vonnegut is one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

Here, it said, is an overlooked genre that has been practiced by some of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

It is also aiming to bring together the most relevant texts on this issue of great importance, written in our region over the past century, as well as to promote the work of the most promising writers from among the domestic workers community.

Surrealist, Romantic, official artist in both world wars, photographer and writer (and sometime art critic), Paul Nash was the greatest English modernist, whose art was a synthesis both of artistic conflict and personal difficulty, and borne out of the horrors of the century itself, with its shell - cratered landscapes and acres of twisted airplane wreckage, seen under a gibbous moon.

Michel Leiris was a prominent 20th Century intellectual, a poet, an autobiographical writer, professional ethnographer, and close friend of many great artists and writers of his times.

The great modernist writer Virginia Woolf has long been associated with the visual arts thanks to her central role in the much mythologised Bloomsbury Group — a collective of artists, thinkers and makers who collaborated, studied and lived together during the first half of the 20th century.

Janet Gardner (A» 65), producer, writer and director of The Gardner Documentary Group is co-producing Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, a documentary about one of the 19th century's greatest leaders during the Industrial Revolution.

Phil Space: Shelley Horton - Trippe, in her recent exhibition High Brow Low Ride, references the great twentieth - century French writer Colette, and she does this by way of a large painting titled The Pure and the Impure (Colette).

Somehow reminiscent of the great science fiction writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, the dystopian narrative opens a wider horizon on half - abandoned, half - experimental factories, on dissolving distinctions between free and labour time, useful and vain modes of late capitalism production.

Ranging in length from 16 to 32 pages, saddle - stitched and printed on varying color stock, the Great Bear pamphlets showcased the work of some of the most innovative writers and artists across the twentieth century: the likes of Jackson Mac Low, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, David Antin and Claes Oldenburg appeared alongside predecessors such as the Italian Futurist composer Luigi Russolo and John Cage's seminal Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse).

Some people look at him as a great eighteenth - century thinker, writer, and preacher, and that is as far as they go.

My book is called The Architecture of Happiness because of a great phrase I found in the work of the French 19th century writer Stendhal.