Sentences with phrase «from earlier novels»

«Lowell's primary focus on espionage rather than on romance is a major change from earlier novels, albeit a pleasing one.»

Win a bundle of prizes to celebrate the release of the deliciously devious comedy of manners Love & Friendship, adapted by Whit Stillman from an early novel by Jane Austen

Directed by Blake Edwards and adapted from an early novel by Michael Crichton (writing under a pseudonym), The Carey Treatment is an existential murder mystery with a pathologist standing in for the P.I.

Directed by Blake Edwards and adapted from an early novel by Michael Crichton (writing under a pseudonym), The Carey Treatment is an existential murder mystery with a pathologist standing in for the P.I.

Not exact matches

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

The Heather Blazing (1992), one of his early novels, opens with Eamon Redmond, a conscientious high court judge in Dublin, writing his last judgment of the term before joining his wife Carmel for summer vacation in the County Wexford, from which they hail.

DeSalvo, whose previous work includes an edition of an early version of one of Virginia Woolf's novels and a collection of letters from Vita Sackville - West to Woolf, argues that other biographers of Woolf (particularly Quentin Bell) have glossed over the formative traumas of her early life, dismissing them as unimportant and in effect blaming the victim for the abuse she suffered.

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

Zossima speaks a word, earlier in the novel, that may help us understand Dostoevky's attitude to Ivan: «those who are apart from Christianity and in revolt against it are none the less still personifications of Christ in their essence, and such they will remain.»

For James, the genres of the novel and the detective story have merged: «The modern detective story has moved away from the earlier crudities and simplicities.

Its final meaning, therefore, can not be determined from its own limited perspective any more than we can determine the meaning of the early episodes of a novel without reading it to the end.

It happens over generations as later generations stay in many ways quite similar but in certain respects become rather different from earlier generations, especially in small, isolated populations facing novel selection pressures.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

One of the things that causes Harry much anxiety in the earlier novels, such as Chamber of Secrets, is that he turns out to have so much in common with his archenemy, from the ability to speak the serpentine «parsel - tongue» to a traumatic childhood background.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

So says Kit, a character in The Quarry, the final novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks — who himself died earlier this month from cancer.

Colleagues from the USA1 carried out a trial in which 83 patients with early stage HNSCC who were all scheduled to undergo neck dissection were injected with the novel tracer, tilmanocept.

But when in the early 1960s the German chemist Kurt Zosel hit on a novel way of removing caffeine from -LSB-...]

But when in the early 1960s the German chemist Kurt Zosel hit on a novel way of removing caffeine from coffee beans, he could not have foreseen how the same technique would become the basis of a method for destroying toxic waste, the inspiration for ways of making industrially important chemicals without con - ventional, toxic solvents, and a bone of contention for real ale aficionados.

Three years earlier, investigators had found genetic sequences of the novel retrovirus in prostate tumors from men with that disease.

Three studies published earlier this year, using six or more years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have broadened the mission's dark matter hunt using some novel approaches.

«This study provides novel insight into early life stage demographics of a long - lived seabird from the long - term study of a small and highly tractable colony.

Wang invented a novel statistical method that was able to take advantage of new kinds of data from the fossil record, which reached the conclusion that early birds had a high rate of evolution.

That knowledge, combined with earlier research by Rey and others, could hint at novel ways to block the virus from infecting cells, says virologist John Roehrig of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, new research from the University of Leeds suggests.

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In many ways, it is still early days for the field; however, one day it promises to turn the basic molecular component of life into a means of producing a wide range of novel devices in fields ranging from electronics to biology.»

Previous studies from the laboratory of Daniel B. F. Saris (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands) reported that a novel stem cell combination represented a safe and efficient means to repair cartilage in preclinical [1] and early clinical studies [2].

Our group has 3 major goals: Develop novel therapeutic approaches based on centrosomal clustering To further develop our first prototype inhibitors of centrosomal clustering preclinically and to establish a robust and specific high throughput small molecule screen Discover key events in myeloma pathogenesis To investigate the pivotal transition from the pre-malignant, asymptomatic to malignant, symptomatic stages of plasma cell dyscrasias in order to understand the pathophysiology and thereby identify novel targets Translate small molecule therapeutics from bench to clinical trials To evaluate novel agents in the preclinical setting and to initiate early phase clinical trials in hematologic malignancies with focus on multiple myeloma

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

Abstract: Background: The Loewenstein - Acevedo Scale for Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI - L) is a novel cognitive test that measures recovery from proactive semantic interference, which may be an early cognitive marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Background: The Loewenstein - Acevedo Scale for Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI - L) is a novel cognitive test that measures recovery from proactive semantic interference, which may be an early cognitive marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

For his research project to explore a novel idea in the field of neurodegeneration, defining the molecular cascade that controls axon degeneration, which is a key early event in glaucoma, Dr. Richard Libby was awarded the 2017 Shaffer Prize from Glaucoma Research Foundation.

Points to novel pathway for drug discovery, will be incorporated into tests to improve screening and early detection of abdominal aortic aneurysm, heart attack and PAD Reykjavik, ICELAND, 11 July 2010 — Scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from the...

Despite ongoing efforts toward finding novel entities for the treatment of the most challenging cancers, translation into patient benefit has been slow due to the fact that translational cancer research from early drug discovery to late stage drug development and assessment in clinical trials is a long process.

Japanese eroge, also known as H - Light novels or hentai games, have their origins in the early 1980s, when Japanese companies introduced their own brands of What I expect from a dating sim game: Interesting and fun scenarios; Attractive female characters; What I got from a novel with dating sim in its title:

The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film «Cold in July,» based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.

For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling's seven best - selling fantasy novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the early entries to the darkening adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

From there, «Early Man» becomes an underdog athletic tale, going through the typical training montages — with some admittedly novel obstacles: molten lava, dinosaur bones and giant, man - eating mallards.

Similar shifts characterize most of Fuller's late films as well as his 1980 novel, which veers from quaint in - jokes — such as naming all the French officers after French film critics who championed his earlier movies, including (Luc) Moullet, (Bertrand) Tavernier, and (Henri) Chapier — to terse epigraphs that suggest the dark poetry of someone like Lautreamont:» «Why are you crying?»

Focus Features is behind the production based on Austin Wright's novel Tony and Susan, and Hammer has a key role in the that focuses on a woman (Amy Adams) who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

An adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's neo-western novel, No Country for Old Men generated a significant amount of buzz at Cannes earlier this year and the Coens have already received a considerable amount of praise for the project from a variety of major American publications.

As is frequently the case, the initial premise and the early set - up of bizarre and terrifying events to come work a lot better than the denouement, even if Garland has at least been shrewd enough to keep the viewer guessing about the exact meaning of his weird evolutionary fable (it's adapted from Jeff Vandermeer's novel).

This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good.

One day, Susan receives a package containing a manuscript from her ex-husband Tony Hastings (Jake Gyllenhaal), whom she left 20 years earlier when he was still just a struggling writer, and is surprised to discover that the unpublished novel, titled «Nocturnal Animals,» has been dedicated to her.

First up from Deadline is news that Steinfeld is in early talks to join Ten Thousand Saints, a feature adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's 2011 novel set in 1980s New York City, an age encapsulated by CBGB, yuppies and gentrification, all leading to 1988 ′ s Tompkins Square Park riots.