Sentences with phrase «reading yeats»

To enforce the ban, the city / state of Libria (i.e., Manhattan as a bad matte) has trained a group of «Grammaticon Clerics» (who have perfected the art of «gunkata») to wander around killing anybody reading Yeats, and these cops are flanked by a retinue of those jack - booted villains from Michael Jackson's long - form «Smooth Criminal» video.

Not exact matches

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.
He had read with pleasure and intelligence Yeats (maybe most of all Yeats) and hundreds of serious works by Claudel, Peguy, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Francois Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, Belloc, Maritain, Yves Simon, Romano Guardini, Sigrid Undset, and Heinrich Böll — all the writers of the «modern Catholic Renaissance.»
I can remember in college and graduate school reading Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Beckett, and Camus while bemoaning with everyone else, including the teacher, the loss of a shared vision about the purpose of human life.
I haven't read «The Waste Land» for a year... But I will hazard these statements — Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats.
(As Yeats once said, «It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.»)
Having the picture turn on a decision made in consultation with a representative of an organization directly blocking a possible medical cure to paralysis is loaded at least — and probably deserving of a more careful combing over than a bad case of urban paranoia, a sad reference to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and a partial reading of Yeats's «The Lake Isle of Innisfree» — which, while a wonderful poem in and of itself, is a woeful and embarrassing anthem for a pair of kindred spirits (both older than, say, seventeen) yearning to be free.
Extras: Over two hours of additional commentaries and readings by dozens of celebrities; two songs based on Yeats» poems by: Bono «Mad as the Mist and Snow,» and Elvis Costello «A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety»; «Yeats Remembered» soundtrack by Pete Briquette; 73 poetry readings and 23 discussion pieces.
Orna Ross crowdfunded her Secret Rose project, an unusual limited edition that pairs two books in one volume and reflects William Butler Yeats» interest in... Read more
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