Sentences with phrase «scandalous book»

She wrote a famous and very scandalous book about the De Koonings years later and she was an abstract painter whose imagery was rooted in landforms and I couldn't even comprehend abstract painting at the time.

Flaubert (Madame Bovary) lived a completely bougeois life, happily married, and wrote the most scandalous book of its time; a book full of angst, deception and lust.

I'm up to the part where she has just decided to stock Nabokov's Lolita, the much - banned, most scandalous book of the year — and so far the reception is profitable, but not happy.

I wrote my sometimes - scandalous book without a second thought because we live in a country that has freedom of the press.

Not exact matches

In his book, Comey recounts Trump's many vociferous denials of a scandalous rumor from a largely unverified dossier that surfaced after the 2016 election.

First, Driscoll's so - called «fall» (from the Acts 29 p.o.v.) seems mainly to involve scandalous improprieties re: funds and books and tone and so on, but the theology that undergirds the spiritual abuse doesn't come under fire since Acts 29 not only doesn't see it as a problem, but generally holds to it as well.

Related to this, the book will also contain a heavy emphasis on radical, outrageous, shocking, scandalous grace.

Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler, by Mark Riebling (Basic Books): It's scandalous that this deeply - researched study of Pius XII's involvement in plots to depose Adolf Hitler has been largely ignored by the mainstream press, but the reason why isn't hard to guess — Church of Spies confounds the «Hitler's Pope» rubbish that Catholic - bashers find useful.

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

We are so used to reading the Bible as a «Holy Book» that we often fail to see how humorous and delightful it can be... even, at times, scandalous and bawdy.

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age?

Republicans describe the Mark Lebovich book this way: «This Town highlights the inner - workings and scandalous nature of Washington's out - of - touch political elite.

«Which is why it was scandalous when the Government decided to balance the books at the expense of those on whom the future economic success of this country depends, by scrapping these grants.

Giving chartreuse its bad name: The Yellow Book, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, a bottle of Charteuse liqueur, and a scandalous «yellow - backed novel.»

A nephew of Sen. Robert Kennedy who was convicted of the scandalous murder of a 15 - year - old girl in 1975 and later was the subject of a made - for - TV movie and three books has won a new trial.

As wacky as it all sounds, this seems like an amusing movie about finding romance even when you're older, and not really about the book itself being so scandalous.

Between the mysterious disappearing act that happens quite often with reviews posted to Amazon, the widespread news of authors buying favorable reviews from pay - per - star services, and the scandalous situation with author and reviewer bullying, reading consumers have had a hard time trusting any sort of reader feedback on a book.

TOP PICK IN ROMANCE Suzanne Enoch's Some Like It Scot, the fourth and last book in her Scandalous Highlanders series, is the charming tale of Highlander Munro «Bear» MacLawry and the fiery - haired heroine, Catriona MacColl, who catches Bear's eye and then steals his heart.

These books struck me as scandalous, exciting and completely addictive.

As five young women of a quaint English village delve into the new and scandalous novel Pride and Prejudice, it sparks some not so lady - like desires in rebellious and clever book club member Justina Penny.

But his attraction to the infamous Lady Tillie Landsdowne threatens to ruin all of that in the fourth book in Heath's Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James series.

When the Duke Was Wicked, the first book in the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James series, was no exception.

This is the final Scandalous Highlander book.

Over the course of this Scandalous Highlanders book series, I've done a lot of research on what was going on in the Highlands at the time of the English Regency — the easing of the restrictions placed on the Scots after their loss at the Battle of Culloden, the Clearances that were forcing landowners to replace tenants with Cheviot sheep, the decline of the clan system, etc..

The back - slapping on the review pages of all the mainstream books press is scandalous too — but that doesn't make it right for us to do it.

In the past, her books Spook and Stiff treaded on morbid ground, while Bonk was saucy and scandalous.

Other books to slip in your beach bag include Judy Blume's «Summer Sisters,» a gossipy mediation on female friendship, Patricia Highsmith's sleek thriller «The Talented Mr. Ripley,» Jacqueline Susann's delightfully scandalous «Valley of the Dolls,» and Helen Oyeyemi's collection of short stories, «What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours,» which has something for everyone.

The floral construction «The Black Book,» Lawrence Durrell maintains all the savagery and obscenity that made the novel so scandalous when it was first published in 1938.

NPR — Extra Virginity: The Sublime And Scandalous World Of Olive Oil — Tom Mueller — An extract from his recent book on «olive oil and olive oil fraud, a story of globalization, deception, and crime in the food industry from ancient times to the present, and a powerful indictment of today's lax protections against fake and even toxic food products...»

There's nothing necessarily scandalous in the book, but it does focus on the relationships Obama had before he met Michelle.