Sentences with phrase «coming of the typewriter»

Just like the pen or pencil did not disappear with the coming of the typewriter (whether mechanical or electronic) nor with the advent of the personal computer, paper books will still exist years into the future and coexist with their digital equivalent.

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My wife, who is always helpful about such things, listened to each chapter as it came out of the typewriter.

If a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters might, in the fullness of time, produce the works of Shakespeare, so two dozen lonely schoolboys in their bedrooms might come up with this report.

Coming from the same typewriter that created the men of Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men and Your Friends & Neighbors (an underrated masterpiece), Roger seems to have it all, but that's only because the version of him we know is merely the one he shows.

The transfer's 5.1 DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack is similarly stellar: Voices come through as loud and clear as you'd expect, but what's most surprising is how rich and varied everything else is, from typewriters clacking away in the ad offices to the busy drone of traffic in New York's city streets.

He also brought his work along with him, in the form of a stack of paper and a tall, klunky manual typewriter that looked as if it might have come out of one of the newsrooms where he had pounded out stories nearly half a century earlier as a tabloid reporter in New York.

Working from a script by Gaby Chiappe, Scherfig — best known for the winsome coming - of - age drama «An Education» — skillfully keeps the tonal shifts in working order, keeping the story afloat in a series of crisp, sharply focused vignettes awash in clattering typewriters, smoldering cigarettes and other appurtenances of a bygone age.

Calvin seems to find the answer to all of his problems when a young woman comes to him in a dream, stirring his imagination and thrusting him to write about it at his old - fashioned typewriter.

After all, did I not move on from my original method of production: writing it in long hand (à la Will Shakespeare), reading into a Dictaphone and then transcribing my work using an old manual, clunk - a-clunk typewriter, which was then superseded by the latest electrical variety; and then the ultimate magical world of PC's came along and voila!

Think Typewriter — limit the styles that you add and don't worry about how the text looks in your Word file — the magic of design comes when formatting and applying the styles you want in the CSS..

For websites 10 years ago you had to code things and then WordPress came along and typewriters and then computers and the tools that have arisen in the last couple of years like I mentioned.

Rather, the best evidence of all comes about midway through, in a confession, as much a part of her past as the imprint of her old typewriter.

When Marden met Smith, she was a waif poet who used to come to his studio to use his typewriter — an Olivetti — because she thought it improved the quality of the rock criticism she was writing for Creem and Rolling Stone.»

Most senior lawyers probably came through law school and their early years of practice in a time when word processing was done using manual or electric typewriters.

All I know is it looked like a massive typewriter for some kind of giant recruitment consultant and needed some old Doris to come in once a week to operate it.

I want to share with you the many interesting people who come in here, the beautiful machines I get and most of all the great typewriter stories that people share with me!

Wandering around the home of an author is as close as most people get — but actually residing where a playwright or novelist once put quill to parchment or fingers to battered typewriter is a literary buff's dream come true.