Sentences with phrase «training of her hawk»

I did not know about his personal issues and nothing about his training of hawks.

I was very interested in the training of the hawks both with Helen and T.H. White.

Initially, I was interested in the processes and progression of Helen's training of her hawk, and how it varied from White's.

Not exact matches

Since then, she has treated two thousand injured birds of prey and lectures extensively about the ecology of birds of prey, traveling with specially trained eagles, hawks, owls and falcons.

Physicists in Britain now have the social cachet of train spotters, except for the occasional star, such as Stephen Hawking.

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

In my old books every part of a hawk was named: wings were sails, claws pounces, tail a train.

I honestly would have enjoyed the book more if she had hung the entire book on the process of training this hawk, but I can see why she didn't — there really isn't enough there.»

The more relevant question for me, is, are there parts of the narrative less engaging than the narrative about Helen training her hawk.

While I was engaged in the narrative of Helen's training the hawk, I was more interested in the evolution of her grieving process and her returning to being engaged in life again, mediated by her training of Mabel.

What drew me to the book was the description of how she used training the hawk as an outlet for her grief, and I was more than satisfied.

She stocks up on hawk food and begins the gruelling task of training her.

Falconry, known as a sport of kings, can include hawk walks and training.

The artist's interest in the topic stems from his experience of having a hawk during childhood and his ensuing obsession with maintaining the partnership between human and bird during training.

But it also turns out he was kind of an infrastructure hawk, and forged bipartisan efforts to fund passenger rail — which couldn't happen today, since conservatives have since decided that trains rob Americans of their freedom.