Sentences with phrase «time than the novel»

It also helps that I generally write short stories in a lot less time than the novel, so I don't «forget» as much of what I wrote

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In 2009, she signed a multiple book deal with Harper Collins; her first novel, L.A. Candy, was on the New York Times Best Seller List for more than a month.

This was an asceticism of a novel sort, worldly and systematic, looking forward to the time - and - profit calculus of industrial life rather than backward to the flesh - denying torments of the desert hermits.

Time after time in his novels Davies recommends nothing less than shaking hands with the devil, acknowledging him as Christ's «brother» and, as the shadow of light, the necessary «other side» of what Christianity has celebrated as Time after time in his novels Davies recommends nothing less than shaking hands with the devil, acknowledging him as Christ's «brother» and, as the shadow of light, the necessary «other side» of what Christianity has celebrated as time in his novels Davies recommends nothing less than shaking hands with the devil, acknowledging him as Christ's «brother» and, as the shadow of light, the necessary «other side» of what Christianity has celebrated as God.

William Blake wrote of England's «dark satanic mills,» and Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times describes the prototypical industrial city of Coke - town in terms more hellish than heavenly.

I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless novels, a good many of them from those first - rate producers of the English detective novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.

I was single for a long time and struggled with loneliness, but I learned from experience that I was far happier at home reading a novel than I was dating the wrong person.

Recent novels by evangelical leaders say more about popular American Christianity than about the end times.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

The bible now is nothing more than a novel, of no more importance than «The Illyad» Yep, read the book, around 10 times, cover - to - cover.

They say that in war time people read short stories rather than novels.

Emily spends more time playing with her sons Sebastian and Walter than she does working on her in - progress novel and editing photos, but since children are only small once, she's willing to let everything else slide.

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

Such fundamental research while still in its early stages may pave the way for novel therapeutic strategies in time as the microbiome is far more manipulable than our genome.

As rodents prefer to spend more time with novel objects than familiar ones, the researchers first exposed the mice to two identical objects (cones or pyramids, in either black or white).

As rodents prefer to spend more time with novel objects than familiar ones, the researchers first exposed the mice to two identical objects for habituation (cones or pyramids) and later measured the animals attention towards a novel object with different shape.

In addition to low thermal conductivity, these novel aerogels have several unique features, one of which is super high oil absorption capacity — it is up to four times higher than commercial sorbents available in the market.

By combining a novel design with high - precision techniques for carving semiconductors, the NEC team has developed an experimental transistor with a key feature that's 20 times smaller than in the transistors found on the densest commercially available chips.

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions — such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat — that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent compounds which are known carcinogens.

We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.

A team of researchers has identified a novel mutation in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Korea that appears only in men and could help explain why HBV - infected men are roughly five times more likely than HBV - infected women to develop liver cancer.

To understand these effects and exploit them for novel, e.g., acoustooptical, devices, one needs to image the delicate interplay of nuclear and electronic motions on a time scale much shorter than 1 ps.

Spontaneously, mice spend more time exploring a novel object than a familiar one, showing their use of learning and recall.

New technology and novel design means it maps the sky hundreds of times faster than its predecessor, SCUBA.

Recent research suggests that a novel material called nanosponge could be up to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection.

Using a novel microscope that combines standard through - the - lens viewing with a technique called scatterfield imaging, the NIST team accurately measured patterned features on a silicon wafer that were 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light (450 nanometers) used to examine them.

In our work, we have overcome this limitation with novel microscope technology that can observe the activity of the fly's entire brain forty times faster than previous techniques.

«We used computer generated, novel faces rather than, for example, famous faces,» Rose explained in an email to TIME, «so that people couldn't simply hold onto associated names or details.»

Compiled from research with more than 20,000 recent graduates, the new edition reveals the Top 100 league table of the most respected and sought - after Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English - language novels published since 1923 — the beginning of TIME

The director of «Room» may have gotten a late start in the business (he made his first feature in his late 30s), but he's more than making up for lost time since his critically lauded adaptation of Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel has stirred Oscar buzz.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Maybe the premise seemed marginally original at one time, but few outside teen audiences will think Mike Carey's adaptation of his own novel is anything more than another tired attempt to board the zombie bandwagon.

The decision was made to split Suzanne Collins» novel into two separate films, and while writers Peter Craig and Danny Strong have worked diligently to fill the running time with incidents and a considerable amount of deliberation, Mockingjay — Part 1 adds up to little more than a time - wasting episode.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you are the type who likes to play six chess matches at a time OR your addiction to spy novels leans towards the most realistic of the genre, rather than the most action - packed

While it was the latest YA novel adaptation at a time when they seemed to be arriving on a regularly scheduled basis, having a film so stripped down and primal made it more worthwhile as an action - horror hybrid than a world - building first chapter of a more extensive series.

More than 50 years after Madeleine L'Engle's young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» was awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal, the big - screen retelling of this timeless classic takes audiences on a transformative journey, exquisitely illustrated through jaw - dropping visual effects, a stirring musical score and diverse, star - studded cast.

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.

Formerly titled «The Wettest County in the World» after the novel on which it's based, the movie looks about ten times more exciting than any episode of «Boardwalk Empire,» and features an ensemble cast that would make any director jealous.

It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.

An auteur who has become accustomed to creating magic on a shoestring budget, we're more than excited to see what she'll accomplish with the beloved children's novel A Wrinkle in Time (because keep in mind, DuVernay was the first name approached by Marvel to direct Black Panther, an offer she bypassed to focus on projects and material she felt more strongly about and which would allow her greater creative control).

In Tom Stoppard «s spectacularly good script (I suspect the quality of which has been overlooked because so few film critics have actually read the book), it has a jumping off point that more than any previous take, digs into the themes of the novel — the many forms that love takes, artificial metropolitan life vs. simple pastoral life — and allows the peripheral characters their moment in the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hours.

Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani discuss adapting a novel for the first time, creating visceral rather than ornamental images, and the unique approach they demand from their actors.

The end result is a passable thriller that could (and should) have been so much better, with the less - than - novel premise, unfortunately, negatively coloring everything that transpires over the course of the film's slightly overlong running time.

Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani discuss adapting a novel for the first time, creating visceral rather than ornamental images, and the unique approach...

what seems to interest Anderson more than the novel's plot twists is its elegiac tone, a half - remembered vision of a time and place that may or may not have existed.

With less than a month to go until Wonder arrives in US cinemas, Lionsgate has released the final trailer for Stephen Chbosky's adaptation of R.J. Palacio's New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, which stars Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Mandy Patinkin, and Daveed Diggs; watch it below... WONDER tells the inspiring -LSB-...]

Ready Player One is based on Ernest Cline's best - selling 2011 novel and tells the story of Wade Owen Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man living in a dystopian future where the general population spends most of its time in the virtual reality landscape of OASIS rather than the real world.

Give it time, and one suspects director Hettie Macdonald and her unexpected screenwriter, American Oscar - winner Kenneth Lonergan (of Manchester by the Sea renown), will have tapped into the unique power of a novel that does nothing less than refract English society, mores and values through the homestead of its title.Barely has episode one begun before the family pile of the title is conveyed in careful detail, as seems appropriate given the disparate people who will gather under its roof.

We do get a feeling like this guy spent a lot of his free time reading too much Hardy Boys novels, because a few of the «detecting» skills Jeffrey shows are less than brilliant.

Many of us had been reluctant to touch a series that gave little more than six hours of television time to what is surely the richest novel ever written.