Sentences with word «doggerel»

First there were the films with his fellow Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (64), Help (65)(in which for two delicious seconds Lennon shamelessly plugs his recently published book of doggerel In His Own Write), Yellow Submarine (67)(that's Lance Percival doing his speaking voice, but that's Lennon in the vocals), Magical Mystery Tour (69) and Let It Be (70).

As an avid traveler and amateur poet, I also write for a travel website and dabble in doggerel in my spare time.

Some Goonerholics Write doggerel bollix With rhymes perverse And scanning worse But droller still Is their football skill With weekly analyses Riddled with fallacies These mediocrities Who think they're Socrates

These points are backlit by LED screens (with eyes and mouths that blink and talk) and sound elements (featuring the whispering voices of the watched uttering contemplative poems and doggerel about privacy, identity and personality) that combine to comment on the juxtaposition of the machine - made image and our natural composition as humans — and how the former can never wholly define the latter.

With such doggerel, the political class and the Westminster beltway press continue to flap and talk to each other in ever diminishing circles.

Prudentius may have his limitations as a poet, but what is the point of rendering his work in this faint English doggerel?

A charming doggerel written by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, after Niebuhr had been lecturing in Swanwick, England, points to this unfortunate misunderstanding.

(Creative Tension, p. 81) Now that statement is more than a choice bit of missiological doggerel.

Then she began composing her own doggerel poems.

His exuberant personality opened up the reserved young woman, and soon he was composing fevered doggerel for her about Johnnie and Dollie, their pet names for each other:

It's revealing, though, to compare Sally Potter's vain little doggerel to some of the European movies Scott mentioned, which try, in their various ways, to engage in the hard, painful work of learning something from recent history.

Then, with the renewed vigor that comes from lack of purpose, he began organizing his possessions, from the relics of dubious origin that he, against his better judgment, was always buying from street vendors, to his stockings, French postcards, and scraps of erotic doggerel.

Ready to turn your damned - good - doggerel into an ebook?

We made up puns and song titles, nonsense words and catch phrases: gorptastic, gorptacular, gorpin» on up, gorpin» it real, gorpified, and other ridiculous doggerel.

Watching Janice Kerbel's Doug — with its black - clad singers and its limp, sometimes winsome doggerels — I kept thinking of the toe - curling acapella concert amusements the King's Singers provide.

Through the course of her life she would go on, notoriously, to sleep with creative men of far more talent, ranging, among others, from Samuel Beckett (she wrote embarrassing doggerel to leave beside his bed) to Yves Tanguy, from Constantin Brancusi to Marcel Duchamp to Max Ernst (who became her short - lived third husband).

And what is considerably worse, it has spawned some preposterous doggerel verse.

The difficult Samuel Beckett wrote what he called this «gloomy French doggerel.»

It was an argument about what separates poets and poetry from coffee - klatsch doggerel.

However that won't slow the whackos down a bit; they'll extract some completely meaningless bit of doggerel to justify their religiofascism.

And it's The Grin that has an anonymous group of girls at the University of Georgia — they call themselves the Buck-ettes — writing doggerel to Buck in the classified section of the school paper:

Forget that it is not great poetry, indeed that it descends to doggerel.

In the 19th century, when conflicts between literalists and nonliteralists were popular, someone wrote these lines of doggerel:

They have the form of doggerel.

After defiantly telling his sister that, no, he won't be going back to the Merchant Marine for a stint at sea, he impulsively joins — with cat in tow — a dyspeptic, shambling jazz musician and his doggerel - mumbling beatnik «valet» (John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund, respectively) on an ill - fated road trip to Chicago.

From quatrains to sonnets, free verse to doggerels, ballads to elegies, DiggyPOD is an industry leader in self - publishing poetry.

Amy D. Shojai also appears on Animal Planet's «Cats - 101» and «Dogs - 101» and lives in North Texas with a senior citizen Siamese and a smart - aleck German shepherd fluent in doggerel.

So goes an old bit of doggerel.

Pranks in art turn out to be as richly varied and diversely resonant as their distantly analogous verbal and written equivalents, which might include puns, shaggy - dog stories, bon mots, satire, doggerel, and funny lyrics.

If one addresses such questions to kim, all one gets back is obscuritanism and doggerel; one fairs little better with the WUWTites and Sky Dragon Slayers, and other proponents of their own pet theories about thermodynamics or snow or the Sun's iron heart or the zodiac whatever it is Myrrh or stephanthedenier think about, generally no more lucid or pertinent than Sideshow Bob.

It's worth paying attention, however, to his Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits, a medium length stretch of doggerel that was, in the original, accompanied by wonderful illustrations from (not Tenniel this time but) Henry Holiday.

We've looked a poetry before on Slaw — «Law Firms Sponsoring Poetry ``, «The Lawyer as Poet ``, «Creative uses for law reports ``, and another Friday Fillip about doggerel — so I thought that this might be of interest to the poetasters among us.

Spaced maybe 50 yards apart, four or five signs would feed you doggerel one line at a time — capped by the additional Burma - Shave punch line sign.

A little piece of doggerel (bitcherel?)

Well, doggerel, more like.

Then there are a number of references to opinions all in verse — most of which seem to me not to scan, a requirement, I should think, of doggerel.

Simon mentioned opinions, problems in metre — foot - dragging of a different type — and doggerel.