Sentences with phrase «preface provided»

The novel's half - true, half - fabricated preface provided the easy marketing tag line, as an old Indian man is supposed to have told the directionless Martel, «I have a story that will make you believe in God.»

Right after the Preface I provide a suggested syllabus that divides up the book's content into 24 manageable assignments, taking a thematic approach (the book itself is laid out chronologically).

• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, «There is some pretty travelogue, and the preface provides an interesting look at the piece's convoluted history, but this will be most of interest to Silverberg completists.»

Not exact matches

Many of the proposed initiatives are prefaced by «we intend», «we will introduce legislation,» «we will propose», without providing details on what the government really intends to do.

Kierkegaard's writings — taken in themselves — provide Oden with wonderfully rich sources of plunder, especially the early pseudonymous works, with their thickets of prefaces, interludes, interjections, postscripts, appendices, multiple voices, and preposterous names, not to mention their sinuous coils of indirection.

The manuscript was left with the printer, the author agreeing to provide the title page and a preface.

A preface may serve a useful purpose if it provides the prospective reader with some indication of what he may expect in the pages to follow.

That in a post where you're supposedly providing evidence against being negative and hypocritical you state, «I just want to preface that this is a giant FU to everyone...» haha Ummmmmm...?

His latest is no exception, a fastidious visual ballad prefaced by an exquisitely - detailed prologue that provides some quick but necessary exposition, reminiscent of the breathtaking, «meet the family» opening to his 2001 commercial breakthrough, The Royal Tenenbaums.

Before summarizing the models, I must preface by stating that these are simply «snapshots» of the models and in no way does this blog represent these works in their entirety since entire books, chapters, and journal articles have been required to adequately explain them (references have been provided below for those of you who want to engage in further reading).

In the preface Gardner says that Armstrong provides «a reliable and readable account of my work.»

In other words, the definitions of culture and character provided in the preface strike me as arbitrary.

Sometimes, vital information is provided in the book preface; however, you should also conduct some research on the author in order to find the answer to this question.

To preface this definition and the examples provided below, it is important to understand that we are specifically analyzing dog DNA testing to determine breed.

Allow me to preface by saying that SplatNet, the multiplayer hub for Splatoon 2, provides a very exciting premise for Splatoon 2 players.

While images of the works are allowed to speak for themselves, each theme is prefaced by a brief essay to provide thought - provoking context to the history, politics, protest, and illicit performance of self - expression in the social space.

If WUWT has some problem with providing a link to my site, the paper without the 2012 preface is available here: ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/twimberley/EnviroPhilo/FunctionOfMass.

The Preface of the 1998 Report provides a clear statement of the attribution problem: -LSB-...]

As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a «review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.»