Sentences with phrase «novel pylon»

William Faulkner, bane of every English student forced to read DWMs until they cry MEGO, had this to say about automobiles in his minor novel Pylon, «a dark and pessimistic novel, one that looks at the uncertainty of American society created by the

William Faulkner, bane of every English student forced to read DWMs until they cry MEGO, had this to say about automobiles in his minor novel Pylon, «a dark and pessimistic novel, one that looks at the uncertainty of American society created by the dehumanizing effects of the machine age.»

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The waves travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

Neither a formalist nor an ideologue, he has a particular feeling for film style that in 1958 led him to compare the gratuitous camera movements in Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels to the run - on sentences in its source novel, William Faulkner's Pylon.