Sentences with phrase «man of letters»

It is not to produce two hostile camps — of engineers and of men of letters — who neither understand one another nor care to.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.

He may have become a leading man of letters, but he did it financed by the ill - gotten gains of early crime.

In mid-twentieth-century America, as men of letters, social reformers, and political rhetoricians were transformed into «intellectuals» (itself a fascinating story), mainline Protestants came to play that role as well, and did so in theological as well as sociological and philosophical terms.

RUReal, Actually the modern sense of morality came from people arguing against Christianity, ie Montesque, Diderot, and many more men of letters from the Age of Enlightenment.

Even that great man of letters, William Shakespeare (or Shakspeare), saw nothing wrong with spelling the same word two or three different ways on the same page.

Stephen King, who started his full - time writing career with the horror classic, «Carrie,» is now a full - fledged man of letters.

Russell Kirk, a mystery writer and «Bohemian Tory man of letters,» in one variation of his «canons of conservatism»:

Whatever the future holds for Chesterton's cause, his greatest legacy isn't about being a brilliant intellectual, or an immortal man of letters, or even a possible saint.

Klassen invites readers to consider that there is much more to this Middle English man of letters.

Finally, and for teenagers looking for heroes and a proper understanding of the heroic: A Distant Trumpet (Nonpareil Books), by Paul Horgan, the nonpareil U.S. Catholic man of letters of the 1950s, now sadly neglected today.

Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.»

It is this: that the writing of these earlier men of letters differs from the writing of most (certainly not all) English professors today.

But there is an important difference between Johnson and other men of letters and modern English professors.

«[Athens]», the ancient man of letters writes in his Panegyricus, «has brought it about that the name Hellenes suggests no longer a race but an intelligence, and that the title Hellenes is applied rather to those who share our culture than to those who share a common blood».

Leaving school at 14, lumbered with what the British mathematician and man of letters Jacob Bronowski once told him were «muddled mathematical linkages», he soon discovered that he was blessed with a visual imagination more than powerful enough to compensate.

In January, we lost Reynolds Price, the North Carolina man of letters whose elegant prose captured the youthful desires and complex feelings of men and women.

When Reynolds Price passed away on January 20, 2011, we lost not only a writer whose elegant prose cadences surely grew out of his intimate acquaintance with the Gospels and Milton (whose work he taught over 40 years in one of Duke's most popular classes) but also the last great Southern man of letters.

As Oscar Wilde famous said, «In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.

A reimagining of Gerhard Richter's 1972 installation of 48 Portraits of men of letters, Herzog's piece sets itself apart from the original through its commitment to materiality.

We must observe as well that John accomplished all he did as a man of letters while being a man of life: a devoted husband to Elizabeth, an inspiring and beloved father to Sibyl and Oonagh, and a friend, confidant, colleague, and fellow fisherman to many.

In the nineteenth century, the scholar and the man of letters were both acknowledged.

It was not a preacher but England's man of letters, John Addington Symonds, who said, «Such skepticism is like a blighting wind; nothing thrives beneath it.»

But it is hard not to wonder what might have happened if he had stuck with Tate and Fergusson, and chosen to be more the man of letters and less the public intellectual.

Instead, he argues that Wilson should be remembered as «a man of letters.»

When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost not only a distinguished jurist, scholar, and man of letters.

His love of the sportis complicated and many - layered, as befits a man of letters.

And Machiavelli the man of letters comes across as humane, witty and decidedly un-Machiavellian.

But the truth was far worse — for they were men of letters.

Their toddies cooled, the men of letters sipped and supped until their unquiet bellies were soothed, then hailed Rumbuttle for another round.

Sacks depicts these and other conditions in human portraits that include the story of Lilian, a concert pianist who can no longer read music, but can still play beautifully by ear; Howard, a «man of letters» and novelist who can no longer read, but painstakingly finds a new way to read and write; and «stereo» Sue, an academic neurobiologist with monocular vision, who gradually gained and self - improved her normal stereoscopic vision.

King of Karangasem I Gusti Bagus Jelantik who is known as Anak Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem is a Statesman, Man of letters as well as an architect.

He'll be introduced by Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and the man with a big brain (and conservative tendancies) is expected to «assess not only his impact on the world of literary criticism, but also his vision as a man of letters who has taught us how to think about that one subject that will always challenge our ability to think: art.»

Almost one and a half month after the official opening of the Exposition universelle, Rodin inaugurates his own exhibition: artists, politics, connoisseurs and collectors, men of letters and journalists, musicians and dancers of all the nationalities attend the lesson of the sculptor.

Zheng, a native of Inner Mongolia, grew up practicing calligraphy with his grandfather and transcribing poetry for his father, a man of letters.

I am an environmentalist, but I am also a man of letters and a farmer.

Clive James is known as a man of letters and, in the UK at least, as an erudite and witty commentator on culture, for which he is widely respected.