Sentences with phrase «for older writers»

Makes me wish I'd started writing earlier: — RRB - I think the main challenge for older writers with huge backlists is relearning the industry — how to epublish, the best ways to do it, which charges are reasonable and which aren't.

And for the older writers with agents who were still working fine, the agent system was the right way for them as well.

Not exact matches

In an industry constantly starved for raw material, the 70 - year - old author's work stands out as an untapped resource — a fact that's now been recognized by a new Canadian company created for the purpose of turning the British writer's bestsellers into box - office hits.

Navneet Alang, a writer for the Techi website, agrees, saying, «Blackberry have suddenly got a lot of talent for creating a successor to their clunky and old - fashioned — if eminently practical — Blackberry OS.»

«If I could go back in time, I'd introduce my 22 - year - old self to a quotation by the writer Brian Andreas: «Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life,»» Huffington writes.

«On Tuesday, April 17, we Americans file our taxes — for the last time — under the old, broken tax code,» wrote Republican Rep. and chief tax writer Kevin Brady in an op - ed for USA Today.

If you know anything about the history of the bible you know it was created by many writers, compiled and edited by Roman emperors, added to, translated, interpreted and actually pretty much ignored — except for a few sentences that sound old fashioned that people use to justify their beliefs and actions.

Moreover, for a certain kind of writer on the left, ideas must bear a revolutionary panache, and there is a frisson of defiance in taking one's stance with, say, the Druids of old (reinvented and sanitized, to be sure, without, for instance, the burning of human sacrifices).

The writer who goes under this name has left us some of the most magnificent poetry in the Bible — poetry which is largely free from the archaic obscurity of some of the earlier prophets, and can be enjoyed for the power and range of its imagery and its richly embroidered language, as well as for the sublimity of its thought, which touches, probably, the highest level reached anywhere in the Old Testament.

I think Jesus recommended the Samaritan's loving - kindness, what certain older writers called «holy living,» simply as a matter of propriety, for the Samaritan was living in what Jesus understood to be a holy world.

Gary A. Anderson, a contributing writer for First Things, is professor of Old Testament at Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is a contributing writer for First Things and professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year - old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy, church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of Organists» 24,000 members).

Today we turn to Chapter 4 — «The Old Testament and its Interpretation in the New Testament» to discuss a phenomenon that has bothered me for years: the seemingly strange interaction with Old Testament texts by New Testament writers.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

It may be that the omission is due to circumstances which rob it of significance, yet the fact that the older sources in Samuel manifest the same oversight and that one goes on as far as the prophetic histories and then to the writing prophets for indubitable evidence of belief in a common ancestry strengthens the suspicion that things were not what later writers would have us believe.

What a drab and repulsive topic that is, for example, a doting old fellow who stands with one foot in the grave, obsessed with foolish fears, his limbs trembling, his toothless mouth hanging open in the inanity of «second childhood»: but see what the writer has done with it in the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, running on to a culmination that is of the pure essence of poetry!

But the most famous skeptic of the Old Testament is the writer who, for lack of further information, we call by the title we have attached to his book.

The citations for the idea of «Binding» and «Loosing» being Jurisdicational and legalistic terms for determining right and wrong are here: The Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Tyndale House publishers), Old Testament Light (Harper and Rowe), and Word Studies in the New Testament (Marvin R. Vincent), George Lamsa (aramaic scholar protestant writer), to name a few, there are many more.

Joel and Ethan Cohen, the writer / director team behind No Country For Old Men; O, Brother, Where Art Thou?

And then, when I thought about my life after school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.

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[40] For him all human learning and philosophy is ultimately derived from Moses, who is «older than all writers.»

For him all human learning and philosophy is ultimately derived from Moses, who is «older than all writers.»

Similar substitutions should be made in the passages where Jesus deals with the centurion of great faith (Matthew 8:5 — 13, Luke 7:1 — 9), where Peter brings the gospel to gentiles for the first time via the centurion Cornelius (Acts 10), and where the writer of Hebrews commends to his Christian audience the acts of force used by noble soldiers in the Old Testament (ch.

But precisely this way of reading the Old Testament illustrates the historicity of the New Testament writers, for in their day this was the accepted way of reading Scripture.

But even when we understand why, for example, the New Testament writers went to great pains to confirm Jesus» birth in Old Testament predictions of a Savior, or to relate his biological lineage to King David, or to tie his betrayal and death to other Old Testament prophecies («so that the scriptures might be fulfilled»)-- we still are left with a fragmentary puzzle instead of a clear picture of the «real» Jesus.

There are some distinguished and competent thinkers and writers in those circles, to be sure, but by - and - large the support for it has come either from ignorant laypeople who find its authoritative manner of speaking emotionally appealing or from those who belong to what might be called reactionary conservatism and who are annoyed by much that is found in the modern world and eager to return to «the old time religion.»

Douthat and Salam's youth» they're among the brightest lights in the next generation of conservative writers» gives them a new perspective on the contemporary political scene, allowing them to step out beyond traditional conservative fixations on tax cutting and limited government» where the supposed Reagan solution is always the correct solution» and to offer incisive criticisms of how the Grand Old Party's ideology frequently serves as a blinder to effective policies for the working class.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

Frank Bascombe, a 38 - year - old feature writer for an unnamed sports magazine (like the defunct Inside Sports, where Ford once worked), narrates the three - day action, mixed with flashbacks, in the present tense.

The biggest obstacle for me thus far though is that if this is true then it would seem that God was deliberately misleading the Old Testament writers as well as the rest of us.

But there is another explanation for some variant readings that Ehrman overlooks entirely: the New Testament writers» rich theological reflection on the Old Testament.

More current versions such as the Jerusalem and NRSV go back to older Greek and Hebrew texts for their translations and give a purer sense of the language and probable intent of the writers.

Like the Old Testament wisdom writers, Updike believes that God's signature is written on the patterns of life for the person who will look.

To be sure, Maeterlinck, when he was suggested for membership in the French Academy, the first Belgian in history to be so honored, wrote a letter to Le Journal asking that they choose instead «my old friend Emile Verhaeren, first, because he is my elder; second, because he is a very great poet, while I am only an industrious and conscientious prose writer.

The Old Testament almost completely lacks this mythological interest, one of the few examples being the prologue of the book of Job, and this is very likely an ancient myth which a post-exilic writer adapted to provide the setting for his magnificent poem on the riddle of human destiny.

The Lord, who is proclaimed in the gospel as God's definitive and focal activity in manhood for our wholeness, takes us into himself, makes us one with himself, lives in us as we live in him, to the end that we may be knit together in «a bundle of life» in a much deeper sense than the Old Testament writer of that wonderful phrase could ever understand.

Some early Christian writers were aware of the importance of old manuscripts for the study of the Bible, and copyists during the Middle Ages, both in the East and in the West, made efforts to find ancient models.

My question is in order for a rumour to be a legitimate rumour does said rumour have to have been started by a fit and proper person such as a newspaper reporter or agent or blog writer, or can any old Tom, Dick or Harry start one?

Nick Baldwin is a 17 - year - old mixed martial arts writer for BloodyElbow.com.

After winning the season's first major last month for her second straight major and going back - to - back in LPGA Tour events, the 18 - year - old phenom said she was excited to head to Augusta to pick up her golf writers» Player of the Year award.

I'm a 27 year old language teacher and writer based out in Mexico with a passion for football and swimming.

Romelu Lukaku and Jesse Lingard struck for Manchester United as they beat Chelsea 2 - 1 at Old Trafford on Sunday in a Premier League heavyweight clash and contributing writer, Nathan Quao, of Citi Sports, noted a few things from the tie.

Old Sturbridge Village is a dynamic, visually - rich living history museum and is a favorite destination for photographers, reporters, videographers, and writers.

-- Category: Special Diet — Meet the blogger: Keen gardener, writer, and mother of four Chris — Why we love it: Family - friendly veggie recipes, most of which can be cooked in 30 minutes, «with a toddler on the work surface, an older child moaning, another one asking for homework help and yet another needing to be picked up»

Writer Nicole Fabian - Weber, for instance, in a piece on «The Clueless Girl's Guide to Creating a Baby Registry» notes that her first step in creating her baby registry was to look at an old friend's registry and tailor it to her needs.

Lenore Skenazy, the writer / columnist / mom / blogger who started yet another crack in the great parental divide when she wrote about letting her nine - year old son ride a subway alone in New York, is encouraging moms and dads to take what may be considered a radical step for today's parents.

More often, online organizers and online advocacy staff are put in the technology box rather than allowed to be communicators — for instance, at my old environmental job, people often came to me with their computer problems, when I'm a writer / designer and in no way a real techie (trust me).

we hear an echo of the old discomfort with Clintonism that helped drive many Democrats away from a different Clinton in 2008 and toward another elegant, inscrutable writer with a knack for giving a great speech.