Sentences with phrase «writing about a figure»

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

He put Downing Street briefings on record for the first time, and though he was only identified as «The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman», he became one of the most high profile and written about figures in British politics, earning the epithet «the real deputy Prime Minister».

It's been a while since I've last written about a figure from Hong Kong collectible maker Hot Toys, but that doesn't mean I haven't been collecting them.

Was it daunting to think about writing about a figure who already has been covered in such depth?

Not exact matches

As a scholar of American political rhetoric, I've previously written about the ways that Donald Trump's rhetorical style mirrors that of polarizing figures like George Wallace and Joseph McCarthy.

Most people think Russia is responsible, but one cyber-security figure points in a different direction: According to James Bamfield, who has written extensively about U.S. intelligence agencies, the latest leaks suggest someone inside the NSA — a second Edward Snowden in other words, albeit one with different motives.

I've written about both aspects of this «advantage» previously and it remains a complex area to figure out.

Figure out what technique works best for you, whether it's interviewing colleagues, writing about current events, emulating the top thought leaders in your field, or surveying your own audience to find out what they want to read.

«That meant all I'd have to worry about each year was figuring out how much I wanted to contribute,» says Buckingham, «and then write the checks.»

Thankfully, economist Josh Bivens, who wrote about all of the above for CBPPs full employment project, figured out that if x were, say 1 percent — i.e., if average compensation grew 1 percent faster than productivity growth — it would take over eight years for the gap to get back to its pre-recession level.

«One of the toughest things about filing taxes as a new business owner involves figuring out what you can and can not write off.

He figured out long ago there is no need to worry about profits as long as you can grow revenue (and Wall Street is willing to keep writing checks along the way)... and every tech initial public offering (IPO)... who needs profits?

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

The great literary critic Frank Kermode wrote of «The Figure in the Carpet» that «Vereker's secret — «the thing for the critic to find» — is not, we infer, the sort of thing the celibate and impotent may look for when they speculate about sex.

Books and articles are still written about the major contributions of particular religious figures such as Jonathan Mayhew, the great Boston Puritan preacher, or the overall contributions of each of the particular denominations from the Baptists to the Roman Catholics.

So I'm actually glad we veered a little off topic in our discussion following the last entry because I've been wanting to write about parenting and children for a while, but figured there would be little interest in the subject.

It was not to be wondered at that such a religious figure as al - Jahiz should write about singing, wine drinking, and jokes.

Clearly it wasn't good enough because only a few people saw him and not enough for even one other scholar to write about a jesus figure rising from the dead and walking around.

And the fact that science hadn't discovered this yet means that once I figure out how to lure the fish out, I could write books about it, and maybe become as famous as Christopher Columbus who discovered that the earth was round!

After all, Kees wrote a number of poems about a fictive alter ego under that pseudonym, an alter ego Astrue has described as merely some «mysterious, detached, urbane figure»:

The leader wrote for the Anglican Communion News Service on Monday after several conservative Christian figures suggested the Church was sending a liberal and damaging message about gender identity.

Unethical or religious freedom??? What about the LDS practice of Proxy Baptism — baptizing deceased persons of other religions into the LDS faith without the written consent of the family members of the deceased (proxy LDS baptisms have been performed on past Catholic Popes and other top religious figures).

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

This does not help us when we try to figure out what a Biblical author is talking about when he writes about «baptism.»

We need to figure out why John writes in the book of Revelation about the return of Jesus in such violent and bloody ways.

I'm trying to figure out a way to keep writing about mothering without using my children as fodder — and until I do, I'll just keep erring on the side of silence and protection.

No, research and writing is not my full - time job, but I figure I spend about 10 hours a week or so in study.

Years ago I wrote to several well known evangelical figures about why they didn't speak out against racism.

So many of the figures Kramer writes about seem, in the space of just a generation or two, to be lightweights.

There are all kinds of questions we could speculate on, but there are not enough facts here to write a news article about a historical figure who is no longer with us.

So far, I have written 120,000 words on this book, and I figure I am about half - way done.

I've been trying to figure out how to write about this week's incidents in the Middle East.

In contrast to Augustine, however, Ambrose is a strangely inaccessible figure about whom (though he wrote much) we know much less than some of his Christian contemporaries.

I have been trying to figure out how to write about it for many days.

Nelson Mandela, the legendary figure in the history of South African freedom struggle wrote about Archbishop Desmond Tutu, «here was a man who inspired an entire nation with his words and his courage, who had revived the people's hope during the darkest of times» (Long Walk to Freedom p. 678).

I also want to ask for opinions about evangelicalism in the light of events with leading figures and something that has has also been written in the recent press.

She figures something like this: I have always contemplated, worked toward, and write about unity.

And in between that, a trip to Japan happened (still figuring out how to write about that from a food perspective, because boy was there a lot of food), many weekends were spent up at the cottage, I wrote my doctoral comprehensive exam, and before I knew it, the year was almost over.

I was trying to figure out how to best write the instructions, and you literally just throw everything in a pot and let it cook about 15 minutes; enough said.

I made it not long after, and I considered writing about it here, but I figured that was probably redundant.

Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).

We are still figuring it out and writing about our journey along the way!

I'm not going to share them all (yet), but I figured it wouldn't hurt to introduce you to the one cookie that's absolutely worth writing home about.

I'm not talking about the job ad your career counselor has you write so you can figure out what keywords to click on Monster.com.

«Today you've got to try to figure out how do you keep someone from writing about anything.»

When I was trying to figure out which defensive lineman I wanted to write about after Solomon Thomas, I went back to our trusty SB Nation Super Mock Draft Compilation something or other.

Share As part of the Mommy Niri Friday 5 series I wanted to deliver the next dose but could not figure out what to write about.

The initial reaction of many educators, when they first encounter the research about non-cognitive abilities that I wrote about in How Children Succeed, is to try to figure out how to teach their students these skills.

So after reading this blog that probably only a writer truly understands, I figured the least i could do was give you my opinion about your writing.

(I figure if I write about it I'll be more likely to follow through with it, accountability and all that.)