Sentences with phrase «great writers working»

Still, he added, «one could put that more pessimistically: given the manifold distractions of modern life, we now have more great writers working in the United States than anyone has the time or inclination to read.»

We had a great writer working on the piece.

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There's a great line [from writer Robert Benchley]: «Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.»

You also have two interns who could potentially handle the work — one has great people skills and the other is a fantastic writer.

But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect of Nat's body of work that obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality of human life from conception to natural death.

• Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl: The greatest work of modern Iranian literature, by a writer whose devotion to Poe inspired at least one work far greater than anything of which Poe was capable.

That being said, I think any good children's library must contain some of the works of Howard Pyle, a truly great writer and artist whose versions of Robin Hood and King Arthur are superiorly crafted and can be enjoyed by all ages.

For the Rig - Veda is just that, a collection, the work of a great many writers, or in some cases, guilds of writers.

I spoke at the anniversary celebration of another church my great - grandfather had founded in Osaka and delved deeper into his work as a writer and theologian at Meiji Gakuin University.

Rodney Delasanta offers a fine analysis of the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky, who is indeed, as Delasanta says, «a great writer and a good man.»

One who wants to understand the medieval matrix of the present world must depend upon the works of scores of specialists and those few great historical writers who summarize and recast the former.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

At the same time Father Lionel Thornton published The Incarnate Lord and Dr W. R. Matthews The Purpose of God and other books; while in the United States Professor E. W. Lyman produced his great work on The Meaning and Truth of Religion, and other writers, far too numerous to mention, were attempting the same task.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

They are often unfamiliar with the works of even the greatest Christian writers such as Thomas Aquinas or Karl Barth.

So, I'm not sure what the issues ya'll had were — I've made the recipe per the original writer probably 20 or 30 times with great results each time — but rock on for a different version that works!

Going along with the notion that the philosopher's impression of America's great autumn sport was an accurate one, a task force of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writers, reporters and photographers, under the combined generalship of Associate Editor Alfred Wright and Special Contributor Herman Hickman, have assembled for next week's issue a volume which should be as important for the ardent 1956 football fan as the works of Clausewitz are for the student of warfare.

They get to work with great writers, animators, composers, and world - renowned experts every day — and even better, they get to connect with YOU, the amazing Mother Co. community of parents who care about raising good people in this world.

She's a great writer and planner, and has done a lot of freelance work over the years, allowing her to take time away from offices and honor her natural night owl tendencies, which is when she gets her best ideas.

A work of immense power and great sadness I return to time and again because within the pages we glimpse a European writer of genius at work.

Even fewer of these women, if any at all, have been admitted to the pantheon of «great thinkers» — that class of writer whose work is the focus of worldwide attention and debate.

As do many great literary works, this book owes its existence to an editor who had a profound influence on a writer.

But regardless of where you end up publishing — most writers end up working several of the venues listed above — a great way to learn the terrain is to listen to others who already work in the field, either on the writing side or the hiring — that is, the editing — side.

Ask any great song writer, author, painter anybody who creates ANYTHING and they will tell you, we do our best work when motivated by love (or pain — but that's usually

Ask any great song writer, author, painter anybody who creates ANYTHING and they will tell you, we do our best work when motivated by love (or pain - but that's usually because of love - so it's the same thing!).

You know there will be fun times and great action in this Sam Liu, as director and from Batman: The Killing Joke, Bruce Timm, as co-teleplay writer, and Jim Krieg, as co-teleplay writer and from Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, work.

55 y / o SBF, well educated, great sense of humor, hard - working, cultured, affectionate, good conversationalist, somewhat artsy, and excellent writer.

As writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg run their characters through a bunch of funny situations, work in flashbacks and dream sequences to great effect (Harold & Kumar is, in the best possible way, something of a live action «Family Guy»), but their directing skills are nil.

On television Gelbart got his start on the Red Buttons Show then went on to work with some of America's greatest comedy writers, including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen on Your Show of Shows.

That makes finding another job difficult for the talented reporter until his greatest scoop falls right in his lap thanks to Christian Longo (Franco), an accused killer of his own children who was living under Finkel's name in California before his capture, claiming he was a fan of the writer's work.

Rosenthal appeared in movies beginning in 1931, and he worked onscreen right up through The Big Clock in 1948, but most of his best work was concentrated in the early / mid -»40s in the films of writer / director Preston Sturges, who used the pianist / actor in various roles in his films from The Great McGinty (1940) through The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947).

«Lean on Pete» calls to mind other greats as well — one imagines a pitch meeting where it was described as «The 400 Blows» meets «Wendy and Lucy» — but writer - director Haigh, working from the novel by Willy Vlautin, has his own way of telling this kind of story.

In our conversation in front of AMPAS and key guild voting members at the DGA Theater, Elliott tells me that writer - director Brett Haley wrote the role for him after they worked together on I'll See You In My Dreams, and he brilliantly dissects the character of a faded cowboy star getting his last chance at a great part.

This is turning into quite a month, with the emergence of two young female writer / directors — Margaret Betts («Novitiate») is the other — who might very well do great work for decades.

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Getting» Square), writer Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and producer turned co-scribe Andy Patterson (Burning Man) adapt Eric Lomax's autobiography of the same name into a consideration of closure and catharsis, as focused on the juxtaposition of the young Lomax's (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations) experiences in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp, working on the Thai - Burma Railway in cruel conditions, and the elder Lomax's (Colin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) troubles when attempting to cope, particularly on the occasion of his marriage to the sympathetic Patti (Nicole Kidman, Stoker) decades later.

To the present writer, Arkadin is clearly the better film, but The Stranger is nonetheless, at the very least, a fascinating curio, and if it's a minor film (if...), then it's the sort of minor film that only a really major talent could make, and an excellent example of what the Cahiers du Cinéma critics meant about the failures of the great being better films than the best work of lesser talents.

The Fighter works off a very good script by three writers, but 1976's Rocky, which it certainly evokes in nearly every way, was a great script.

Deathtrap Pinole Community Players present Ira Levin's dark comedy thriller about a once successful author who goes to great lengths to produce new work amid a bout with writer's block.

The set of eight principles have been developed in consultation with unions including Equity and industry member bodies and agencies such as Women in Film & TV, the Writers» Guild of Great Britain and UK Screen Alliance, as well as employees and freelancers working across all aspects of the industry.

WHY: Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, «The Drop» doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work, but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Mijke de Jong (Director / Writer, The Netherlands) has shown great social engagement in her work over the past 25 years: starting with her co-authored feature film debut, LOVE HURTS (1992), which won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno, through to her latest film, LAYLA M. (2016).

«It's great to be working with Stephen Poliakoff again after such a long time,» said Stephens, who last worked with the writer - director on 2001 miniseries «Perfect Strangers.»

We are working with some really amazingly talented writers and producers, along with a great cast.

Funny how there are plenty of great comics writers that have never had a work put to screen; but there are a handful that get an adaption and suddenly all of their portfolio is optioned.

My take: I've written many times about my love of Mexican writer / director Guillermo del Toro, who I consider one of the greatest genre filmmakers working today.

One of the greatest writers of the past 30 years and certainly one of the most imaginative people working today didn't see that ending coming?

Great Directors on TCM: Woody Allen Woody Allen is one of the most prolific writer / directors currently working, having turned out a new film nearly every year since the early 1970s.

Carol works beautifully, but only on one level; it's a great adaptation of a novel by a great writer, and that's a lot, but that's all.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»