Sentences with phrase «like yeats»

It was a surprise to me to encounter someone like Yeats...

The fate of pretty blondes is a primary concern of Polanski's in this period — no less so enacted through this saga of a woman, raped and humiliated before, in the end, like Yeats's Leda, she takes on the power of her patriarchal tormentors to exact precise, poetic vengeance.

Players like Yeats, St John, Hunt, Hughes, Kennedy, Keegan, Toshack, Rush, Souness, Barnes and Gerrard would have statues built for them had they played for anyone else,...

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He looks like an ideal replacement for coq but it will never happen in a million yeats wenger sees coq has the best dm in the world.

While at Arsenal we were playing Liverpool at Highbury in a 5th round FA cup match when the scouse's centre half, an enormous man called Ron Yeats kicked Joe while he was on the floor, without any hesitation Joe jumped up and hit Yeats with a right hook on the chin, the whole crowd went hush, silence all around the ground then the bully Ron Yeats began to fall, like a giant oak tree he hit the floor, out cold.

I bake my own bread from organic oat flour, honey vs sugar, and organic yeats and the like.

Here's a hint: It's the land of Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats and James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and Colm Toibin and Colum McCann and U2 and the Pogues, who were only like one of my favorite bands in high school.

by Walter Chaw Three short films about three women and the men who mistreat them, Rebecca Miller's DV triptych Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a fine - looking film that plays a little like Catherine Breillat - lite — a series of iterations of Yeats's «Leda and the Swan» that suggest the evil that men do to women only makes women stronger.

House of Sand and Fog is more about that growing feeling in the United States of ennui and nihilism, focusing, like Gus Van Sant's astonishing Elephant, on the Yeats - ian idea that bad things happen because good people fail to — are unable to — act.

- Booklist «Technically accomplished and precisely attuned to our current cultural climate, Smith, like William Butler Yeats, once again demonstrates how an engaged, activist poetry need not forgo lyricism, compassion, and complexity to be effective.»

We meet the usual suspects — Beckett, Pound, Eliot, Yeats and those two remarkable women who played such a significant role in Joyce's career, Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach — and witness the writer's passing encounters with the likes of Vladimir Lenin and Irish nationalist Patrick Pearse.

I asked Ross, the founding director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), to give us some idea of what it's like to wade into such an effort as she has undertaken with the Yeats.

De Baranano convincingly argues that Guston was drawing on imagery from poets like W.B. Yeats, Eugenio Montale, and Wallace Stevens, and also echoing those poets» sensibilities.»

Visual Arts in Sligo Cultural History, Drumcliffe Burial Site of WB Yeats, Famous Artists (like Jack Butler Yeats) and Craft Galleries.

Ever since the days of Kandinsky, the spiritual in art has been a subject of interest to abstract artists — to all those who seek a path beyond the physical — those who, in the words of Yeats, «live for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like a terrible lightning.»

So, «mind like water,» T.S. Eliot's «the still point in the turning world,» and Yeats» «I hear lake water lapping, with low sounds by the shore.»