Sentences with phrase «obituary described»

Younger readers may not remember Vasconcellos, the late assemblyman and state senator whom one obituary described as a «titan of the human - potential movement.»

An obituary describes him only as a «resourceful career diplomat».

While this new work continues Lum's interest in overlooked characters, the mood is distinctly bitter and ironic: the obituaries describe pathetic or banal deaths, and the busts include those of people most famous for the brutal way their lives ended.

Not exact matches

In Emily's obituary, her brother's wife and lifelong friend Susan Dickinson describes her sister - in - law's fondness for sending out care packages:

Kennedy was routinely described in many obituaries as having taken his party to the left of New Labour.

In a recent obituary for Lady Astor, who worked as a fashion model in the period and was the muse of Pierre Balmain, journalist Katharine Whitehorn described her walk as «dirt - beneath - my - feet style of modelling».

Described in The New York Times obituary as «one of the most important education philosophers of the past 50 years,» Greene enacted a social vision and agency that fuels current fights for social justice.

For those who came to know Helen Dunmore through her novels, it may be a surprise to find that she was, as described in her obituary in The Guardian «first and last a poet.»

The Times describes the book as the «ultimate anthology» of its coverage of the franchise, containing its articles, reviews, obituaries, photographs, and more, from the beginning of the franchise all the way up to the recently released Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

An obituary on Sept. 20 about Hiroshi Yamauchi, the longtime president of Nintendo, included a quotation from a 1988 New York Times article that inaccurately described the Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros. 2.

You could imagine that Mr. Resnick, the irascible «painter's painter» Roberta Smith described as «the last Abstract Expressionist» in the obituary she wrote for The New York Times when the artist died almost eight years ago, had just wandered out for coffee.

In the Telegraph obituary, Aitchison is described as a gentle and whiskery man with a halo of snowy hair and a look of permanent astonishment.

As Michael Kimmelman described in Diebenkorn's obituary: «Prone to wearing corduroys and button - down shirts, he had a professorial, studiously unbohemian manner that was the very antithesis of the cliche of the slick SoHo artist and entrepreneur.»

Her works in this show were described as «hovering poignantly between craft and art, commemoration and gift, quest and obituary» (quoted by Clive Kellner in Liberated Voices, 1999: 135).

In his obituary, Dworet was described as a leader and a «big brother» figure.

Does your resume «sell» you as an ideal candidate (i.e., marketing piece) or is it simply describing your background (i.e., obituary resume)?