(1) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(2) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(3) Tommy (1975), an engaging version of the Who's slightly dotty rock opera, was followed by two of his less successful freeform biographies, Lisztomania (1975), starring the Who's Roger Daltrey, and Valentino (1977), starring Rudolf Nureyev.
(4) A biography, magazine articles, and various surveys of his work convey the impression that his ideas are timely, or at least that they are historically important.
(5) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(6) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.
(7) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
(8) A brief biography of David Edward Hughes is outlined.
(9) Yet the biography of this pupil and successor of Korsakov is that of a liberal, who championned the cause of human rights under the ancient regime, and in particular those of the mentally ill. His theoretical writings, published in the medico-psychological Annales in 1903-1904, are a contribution to the critique made by the French speaking school of the extended conception of dementia praecox developed by Kraepelin in 1899, and taken up by Bleuler in 1911, with his description of the group of schizophrenias.
(10) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
(11) As any biography will also tell you, for all his shape-shifting brilliance, Bowie is a Royal Variety Performance vaudevillian at heart.
(12) It is a sophisticated grid, mounted upon a database that is said to have been more than two years in the development, containing biographies of individuals believed to pose a threat to US interests, and their known or suspected locations, as well as a range of options for their disposal.
(13) After the Scot sued Rooney over allegations in a biography the pair reconciled but whether Moyes would want him to stay at United is not yet clear, though he will have the final say on the striker's future.
(14) In the case of Twitter this may include who wrote the tweet, their biography, their location, when it was written, how many other tweets have been on that users account, what time it was, who it was sent to, where the author is normally based and, surprisingly in the case of Twitter , the 140 characters of the content in the tweet as well,” he said.
(15) For a time, he tells me, the new library operated without a biography section; crime and sci-fi disappeared, too.
(16) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
(17) I first met Boris in 1987, and a few years ago wrote an unauthorised biography of him , but no specialist knowledge is required to see that this is what he is like.
(18) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
(19) As the key leave campaigner Boris Johnson said in his biography of Winston Churchill two years ago, the European Union, together with Nato, “has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors”.
(20) He was an astonishing figure, as Tim Hilton’s magisterial 2002 biography of him proves.
Fable
Definition:
(n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
(n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
(n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
(n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
(v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
(v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(2) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
(3) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(4) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
(5) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
(6) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
(7) 7 Nightswimming REM's biggest album – 18m copies sold internationally and counting – was as southern a record as Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.
(8) My paper, in fable form, addresses some of the conditions in the United States and in Canada which reduce the ability of members of the community from making improvements in their health and changes to the health care system.
(9) Timbuktu, his most recent narrative of a dog's life by a canine narrator, aims for the simplicity of fable; some found it just simplistic.
(10) Examined is the clinical use of fables in the evaluation of child sexual abuse.
(11) And another on the Esalen Institute , the most fabled of these.
(12) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
(13) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
(14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(15) Dr Mohamed Diagayeté is in an agitated state as he stands in front of stacks of green metal cases containing thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts from the fabled medieval city of Timbuktu, northern Mali .
(16) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(17) When most of his colleagues fled Iran in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Kiarostami stayed put, shooting his acclaimed neo-realist fables about rural life and human mysteries, and picking up prizes from the world at large.
(18) The connection was his then-editor Jeremy Thomas (now a fabled producer) , whose uncle Gerald directed the whole series.
(19) The efficacy of the fable assessment technique is discussed, as are issues in the use of projective assessment with children.
(20) The Blairites, as ever, neurotically fear the fabled lurch to the left, and will not go quietly.