Sentences with phrase «literary figure»

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German literary figure once said, «Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.»

On the other hand, in 1960s, Rendra, an Indonesian literary figure, reminded us that «in our country, the cities grow as the distributors of foreign products».

In Iceland Haraldur is also a well - known literary figure and film actor.

One 747 «Heavy Big Bird» stacked to the rafters with American Youth of university age drinking and self - medicating to dramatic excess while weathering air pockets on a bumpy trans - Atlantic flight piloted by an astronaut and a well - known and much missed literary figure.

Until a few years ago, she was best known as a literary figure and the author of Sitt Marie - Rose (1978), a lean and forceful novel about a woman who was kidnapped during Lebanon's civil war and killed for her commitment to the Palestinian cause.

The collage - like painting Burroughs in Tangiers, constructs a space for the Beat Generation writer to work — a manic space, like the literary figure himself.

- Alberto Giacometti's portrait of his friend James Lord, sketched on the last page of a political review by French intellectual and literary figure Georges Bataille from 1948.

Originally published as a six - issue mini-series, it offers a mash - up of genres, pitting classic literary figure Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Watson against a zombie outbreak — and their old nemesis Professor Moriarty — in 1898 London.

A major literary figure tells «a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what - if speculation, part polemic and exposé» (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family — civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis.

While it's good to be able to preserve items that belonged to an important historical and literary figure, it does beg that question, «Is there such a thing as too much digitization?»

Although some of his work was published during his lifetime (such as Walden, Or Life In the Woods (1854) he did not come to be regarded as a major literary figure until the 20th century.

But Rose isn't modelled on any historical or literary figure.

What were the most interesting challenges / pleasures in writing about such an extraordinary literary figure?

I named my car after a literary figure, Amelia Peabody.

Enrich students» understanding of a historical or literary figure by having students draw the figure's life journey.

Students clarify aspects of their identity or the identity of a historical or literary figure by writing poems that focus on deeper elements of personal makeup like experiences, relationships, hopes, and interests.

Meanwhile, the intensity of Thomas» personality is mostly conveyed through reaction shots of button - down»50s types who just can't believe that a famous literary figure would say «fuck» out loud.

Having exhausted the «Sherlock Holmes, but with the internet» concept of Sherlock, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are moving on to another oft - adapted literary figure: Dracula.

The literary discussion that The Raven's inner Poe dork wants to have with its audience most of all gets lost in the derivative story, one that takes a real literary figure on a bender through the torture gore of Saw and the clue - chasing of the recent Sherlock Holmes movies.

It's the latest in a line of projects driven by Hollywood's new fascination with revisionist history, but is Poe really that popular of a literary figure that people will care?

In Bright Star, the Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw)-- a literary figure prone to objectification — is addressed by Jane Campion, who represents him from the perspective of his «muse», Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish).

The film stars DiCaprio as the classic literary figure, a wealthy man who has everything he wants save for his lost love, played by Carey Mulligan.

If nothing else, Sherlock Gnomes proves that it takes a lot more than a pun to make a beloved literary figure your own.

Radcliffe told the French press [via Twitch] that he would «very likely» be playing the literary figure for a film, which would be...

Some of you may have heard of the response from a famous literary figure who, upon the acceptance of a prestigious award near the end of his life, was asked to make a brief statement.

Cawthon says it all traces back to Chaucer, who was buried at the church in 1400 because he had worked at Westminster Palace --- not because he was necessarily viewed as a great literary figure at the time.

Few of us will have an opportunity to travel with Zorba, but most of us have traveled with Zorba, or with Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, or with some other literary figure.

I recall a magazine article about King's funeral by a well - known Northeastern white literary figure.

And for satanists, he'll get you to believe that there is no devil or no Satan, and that Satan is not real, and that Satan was just a literary figure someone made up.

Percy was asked what would have most surprised another major Catholic literary figure, Flannery O'Connor, about the post-conciliar Church she did not live to see:

Von Balthasar often commented that be found more vitality and originality in the writings of literary figures like Georges Bernanos (author of Diary of a Country Priest) than in much of the neoscholastic theology he was taught at school.

Take a look at ten issues from that first year or two and you'll find essays on religious freedom, war and peace, marriage and family, philosophical materialism, literary figures, and theological movements.

For example, several centuries ago, God may indeed have become a «lover of Shakespeare» insofar as Shakespeare's works were experienced by human beings; yet, it is also possible that God's appreciation of Shakespeare's artistry (though not of the feelings of Shakespeare or his audience) declined as new literary figures and forms appeared.

Assorted tech - savvy wags have created blogs for major literary figures (G.K. Chesterton, for example), so it was inevitable that someone would create a blog for perhaps the most prolific diarist in English literary history.

He is rated as one of China's greatest literary figures.

A number of our distinguished literary figures cut their pens on parliamentary reporting, as described by Nikki Hessell in Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens (Cambridge University Press, # 55).

Powerhouse literary figures, such as Salman Rushdie and filmmaker Michael Moore also gave their support.

Emily Dickinson's Garden: The Poetry Of Flowers See spring in The Garden through the eyes of one of America's most beloved literary figures, Emily Dickinson.

She has now told the political history of Britain since the Great War through the diaries of politicians, literary figures and ordinary people in Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from the Great War to the Present (Profile Books, # 25).

Cap of 12 library books in cells ends after campaign backed by literary figures, but ban on sending books into prisons remains

It is mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran and its merits were commended by literary figures from Homer to Shakespeare.

So no puns, obscure literary figures, or film references.

At precisely the same time, a tsumani of remythologisation had got under way, first by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien and then by lesser literary figures such as L Ron Hubbard, George Lucas and, perhaps most remarkably, JK Rowling.

The Mummy spans millennia and genres, ripping off countless better movies as it yokes together crusading knights, rampaging Egyptian cadavers, howling zombies, campy literary figures and smirking tomb raiders.

by Walter Chaw There's fat to be trimmed from Joe Wright's noble go at Jane Austen's adapted - to - death Pride and Prejudice, which clocks in at a flabby 127 minutes (yet still seems somehow rushed at its conclusion), but when it works, it does for Austen what Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet did for Shakespeare: it makes the trials of these iconic literary figures feel immediate and sensible — and it does so with a screenplay (by Deborah Moggach) that understands what parts of the text are timeless and what parts are not.

I cant wait to introduce them to characters in literature and rediscover those literary figures through their experiences.

Use identity charts to deepen students» understanding of themselves, groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.

TB killed many celebrated literary figures including George Orwell, Samuel Johnson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, and John Keats

This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul - mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great - granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers - on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real - life literary figures, and random acquaintances.

Nigeria is a country fertile with writers, full of wonderful literary figures like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Ben Okri.