Sentences with phrase «few years of rejection»

After sinking his teeth into a mouthwatering Lockhart Legend at Grub Burger Bar (complete with beer - battered onion rings), Smith relives those first few years of rejection, slow growth and at last a breakthrough!

A major reason I self - publish (besides that I don't want to go thru a few years of rejections / waiting for pre-press) is because I have many books with complex layouts, and it's easier for me to create them WSYWYG than to try to keep track of what I'm saying in a single text - stream manuscript format.

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But it came too late — his habit of bitterness too well established by his drinking, his rejection by Hawthorne, and his favorite son's suicide to allow him much happiness in the few years he had left.

I'm not a scholar on this, of course, but I remember reading that this all started just a few hundred years ago, and more or less aligned with the church's rejection of alchemy under pressure from the growing influence of the Enlightenment (during which they tried to suppress Galileo, formed the horrors of the Inqusition, and more...).

Part of this, I'm sure, is fear of rejection, but as I've thought about writing for publication over the past few years, I'm actually quite relieved those three books are not published.

I have been single for a few years embarrassed to have to admit what I have as for fear of rejection.

Over the past few years, there has been a grassroots professional rejection of bogus ideas within education, coupled with a wellspring of enthusiasm for more credible alternatives.

It's amazing how through a few tiered, explanatory steps, I was able to bypass years of agent - hunting and letter - sending and rejections.

As New York painters were progressively rejecting illusionistic space and moving toward a more literal space and bigger formats — which would logically lead a few years later to Donald Judd's rejection of painting in favor of sculptural space — the concept of le tableau continued to provide a conceptual framework to painters within the French idiom that would allow painting to evolve without losing the basic elements of its identity.

Over the course of the next few years, he stacked the Public Service Commission with appointees who had climate views similar to his, resulting in the PSC's rejection of six new coal - fired power plants.

Given the market's rejection of Windows - based phones over the last few years - even among business customers, who have increasingly embraced iPhones and Android devices - Microsoft would clearly need to offer some sort of extraordinary game - changing capabilities to convince buyers to purchase a «Surface phone».

Children who have ADHD have fewer friends, are less likely to be accepted by their peers, and are more likely to experience social rejection during their teenage years, regardless of whether or not their symptoms of ADHD continue.