How To Use Beckett In A Sentence

So I think of Beckett as not being religious in the usual sense but at least being alive, being truly alive, and horror-struck by it.
‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
I seem to remember getting into some fairly deep Samuel Beckett.
Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.

Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
Enjoying a ratings boost this spring thanks to its Dancing With the Stars lead-in, this enjoyable light mystery swaps coasts as Detective Beckett goes rogue, defying orders as she heads from New York to L.A. where the Heat Wave movie based on Castle's books is in production to find the killer of her former partner. Matt's Picks: May 2-5
The disembodied faces which we see through the darkness are recognisably human, but also immobile, as if physically caught in a state of Beckettian stasis.
The young author was billed as 'the new Beckett'.
The importance of the stud starters gets magnified, and Boston has two thoroughbreds in lefty Jon Lester and Josh Beckett. What to watch for in Red Sox-Angels series
Despite the title, this play adds little to our knowledge or appreciation of Beckett although assuming a fairly comprehensive acquaintance with his works.
For instance, seeing O'Toole and Burton spar in the pro-cleric film Beckett helped inspire my studies of medieval history.
Al's tatterdemalion figure was washed out in a psychedelic rainbow as Sam Beckett leaped again.
People these days are reading less and less; aliteracy is a growing problem, concisely explained in a recent article by Andy Beckett. Archive 2009-05-01
While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time. The End Of the Line
The post of deputy leader went to Margaret Beckett, who won 57.3 percent of the vote.
Fire extinguisher in hand, Airman Beckett swiftly moved to combat the raging inferno; keeping the flames away from the main entry hatch until the flight crew had safely egressed the aircraft.
A recession is a great reminder that all of us need to learn, as Samuel Beckett said, to "fail better.
Typical of Beckett's later preoccupation with the art of minimalism, this performance cuts the story down to the bare essentials.
Greco's dance is not an easy option, living as it does like a Beckett character in strange, uncharted territory.
Beckett allowed three hits and a walk while striking out six in 3 2-3 runless innings. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Abdication of responsibility because other people - the Trots like the dead-eyed Margaret Beckett and her old husband of 82 who dodders along on the payroll of the British taxpayer as her "personal assistant"? Nadine on Gypsies and Smacks
Somehow, Dr. Beckett's gotten embroiled with this tart, only she's ten years older than him if she's a day, and she's the wife of a mucky-muck network executive.
We all imagine Beckett to be that vanner and would like to set her up as the target of one of those Top Gear stunts where a caravan is destroyed by interesting technical means. Margaret Beckett's caravan
At the age of 48, and a celebrated actor as well as a dazzling filmmaker—I heard him described as the Chinese Marlon Brando—Mr. Jiang has the buoyancy of an absurdist, the edge of an ironist, the camouflaged instincts of a moralist and the limitless zest of an entertainer who, from the evidence on the screen, might feel as much of a kinship with Abbott and Costello as with Beckett or Buñuel. Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand
Reading these poems I kept thinking of Ionesco in Paris, Nabokov in New England, even Beckett, split between English and French but doing anything to avoid the stale colloquialisms of an ingrown Irishness.
Despite my personal gripes with Beckett and his self-conscious intellectualism, ATD Productions have excelled themselves in creating what is a truly brilliant adaptation of an impossibly difficult play.
Al was calm and self-assured, and Sam could see that confidence rubbing off on Beckett.
It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
Mr. Pearson was not quite as lucky two years later, when — possibly emboldened by his success with McAlister against Loughnan, and the abrupt and helpful findings of Mr. Justice à Beckett — our great great grandfather was convicted of assault in an ugly horsewhipping episode. Archive 2009-05-01
Winnie, Beckett’s "hopeful futilitarian" is buried up to her waist in the earth, woken and summoned to bed each day by the same disembodied bell. Audio Interview with actress Tanja Jacobs on playing Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days
Miliband, therefore, will more likely be an active player, rather than a "bedwarmer" in the manner of his predecessor Margaret Beckett. Archive 2007-06-01
Beckett got upset with West in the fifth inning after he called a balk on an attempted pickoff toss to first base. Undefined
CSIRO in Australia isolated 200 samples of BT; these were screened against Tribolium castaneum to find a bacterium effective against stored-product coleopteran pests (Beckett,1989). Chapter 8
Only Beckett seems to have escaped censure, because of his elegance and self-restraint.
I gulped, immediately regretting my decision but I was afraid to tell Mrs. Beckett that I changed my mind so quickly.
Beckett had complained that he was barricaded into his home by an RUC Landrover which parked against his front door.
*** Speaking of tough nuts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival has imported Dublin's Gate Theatre revival of "Krapp's Last Tape," Samuel Beckett's hour-long 1958 "duologue" for an angry old writer John Hurt, made up to look like Beckett himself who listens to a tape recording of himself when young and can't stand what he hears. The End Of the Line
Still, between the baby-language of the modern media and the blistering, elementary severity and clarity of Beckett, there does lie a place where being wordy is surely just about ok. 2009 May 03 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Yet, like the best of Beckett's dialogues, McDonough's theater of the absurd -- the show's title is the intentionally misspelled and lowercased "reck room" -- has a few good ideas to share. Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint
Although Marin has gone back to the starkness and repetitions of Beckett in Umwelt, her other, newer inspiration is the 17 th-century philosopher Spinoza, whose Ethics she read two years ago.
Beckett's enthusiasm is undimmed by the gruelling schedule his two jobs enforce.
The recurrence of boils, pustules and other such ailments in the stories echoes Beckett's own frequent affliction with skin disorders.
The Beckett Society sent Evans a letter congratulating him on his interpretation of the role.
As the direction demands, they stay on point, rendering Beckett's dark humour with an appropriate sense of impersonality and detachment.
Harry Beckett, the Barbados-born trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer, who lived in London from 1954 and who has died after a stroke aged 75, made blindfold tests easy. The Guardian World News
Beckett allowed seven hits but struck out nine and stranded six runners in scoring position.
Chaikin is perhaps best known for his lucid productions of Beckett's plays and collaborations with Sam Shepard.
Francis Beckett's highly praised biography is now available in paperback for the first time.
But Epstein said physical examinations concluded that Beckett is "insurable," indicating that his arm is structurally sound enough for a policy to be placed on it. FOXSports.com News
One cannot but fear that Sir Edmund Beckett, who can hardly bring himself to speak of a Nonconformist minister otherwise than as "Stiggins," or of a Nonconformist chapel otherwise than as "little Bethel," is a type of many laymen, who pique themselves on being particularly sound Churchmen, and who, in their open-handed liberality, as regards money, in support of the Church, are worthy of all honor.
Calm down, Castle and Beckett shippers, she takes a liking to Esposito.
Ian Beckett, the deputy chief constable of Surrey, has been cleared of indecently assaulting two female colleagues.
Sam Beckett seemed to be a handsome man in his early forties, with a single white forelock in an otherwise brown head of hair.
That territory, like Beckett's (u-topic) no-spaces, is a beyond-ness or in-between-ness, a de-territorializing move from the known to a condition of unknowingness.
Denis Beckett treks to the festival to reflect on the accidents, chances and coincidences that shape the world we know.
The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.
Even the book's tantalising denouement - proof that our hapless youth's feelings for Madame are not entirely unreciprocated - comes after she gets him to recite a line from Beckett's Endgame.
Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd
The influence of playwrights like Pinter and Beckett was more apparent in his teens.
She's studying the theme of death in the works of Beckett.
Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett approved cultivation of the herbicide-tolerant maize but rejected commercial cultivation of GM beet and oilseed rape.
It can be "zany" or not (Beckett is zany in Waiting for Godot, not in How It Is or The Unnameable, but the effect is the same). Comedy in Literature
‘Center me on Sam Beckett,’ he rasped, in a voice he barely recognized.
Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca.
The main way out of this is found in the work of dramatists like Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett, who can enact the metaphysic of drama without providing a theory for its interpretation.
He is seen, with some justification, as a cold, austere writer, one who belongs to a line that includes Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett rather than more marketable writers.
With Life and Times of Michael K, which has its roots in Defoe as well as in Kafka and Beckett, the impression that Coetzee is a writer of solitude becomes clearer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release
I didn't really know how to carve, but as a scriptwriter I had been influenced by the French theater of the absurd, especially Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.
Pick of the plonk and pies Fiona Beckett Wines to trot out with the turkey.
Potter did for television what Samuel Beckett did for theatre: he smashed its conventions and reimagined the way the medium worked.
Over the past several years, he's made his largest and chanciest investments in pitching, spending over $200 million on Josh Beckett SI.com
Two typical late poacher's goals in quick succession from Luke Beckett, and Barlow's superb volley eight minutes from time earned Stockport an amazing point.
As Beckett dramatizes, the ultimate reality of the subjective mind is beyond the spatio-temporal limits of logical meaning.
He points to the clear, simple prose of Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett as examples of brilliant writing that is not bewildering for its complexity.
We all imagine Beckett to be that vanner and would like to set her up as the target of one of those Top Gear stunts where a caravan is destroyed by interesting technical means. Margaret Beckett's caravan
Radek," Dr. Beckett explained, "John asked for you to come, the rest of us didn't know about your relationship with Sarah. Wraithbait
His booming declamation often manages to override the humorous intent of many of Beckett's lines.
You don't have to like, or approve of, Mrs Beckett although right-wing readers should note that she is the most Eurosceptical Foreign Secretary since Bevin, which is why the Beeb wants rid of her. Margaret Beckett Says She is Staying Put
Directed by Michael Colgan with scrupulous faithfulness to Beckett's text, he shows us a self-obsessed artist who, having chosen between in Yeats's phrase "perfection of the life, or of the work," has lived to regret his decision to opt for the solitary pursuit of his elusive muse. The End Of the Line
The backbar showcased stained glass portraits of Irish writers through the ages: Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey. Salvadora
Both contemporary satirists have really borrowed the idea from the high avatar of absurdism Samuel Beckett.
This bleak outlook on humankind allies him to Beckett, and it's no surprise that the godfather of the absurd should be here in one of the show's most powerful pieces.
In fact, one is more likely to be struck by the absence of literary devices in Beckett's sentences, by the commonplaceness or familiarity of his expressions, than by any colorful or complicated diction.
What we hear is Fouere using all her vocal skill to break up Beckett's unpunctuated phrases and intersperse them with cries and ululations.
But by the end, Hodge moves one with his image of a man as trapped and immured as any Beckett hero. Inadmissible Evidence - review
Narain Karthikeyan: ‘I had a very good start and overtook Massa but unfortunately he was able to repass me at Becketts.’
The Magicians and Mrs Quent by Galen Beckett thats actually the "gushy" short version of Memory's review. Today in Fantasy: March 20, 2010
Blood Sonata is born of Artaud's theatre of cruelty and raised on Beckett's absurdism: it is not about anything.
Riding on an insistent, rockish riff (in seven, you guessed it), it features beautifully agile solos from Dean, Beckett and Skidmore while Tippett's distant celeste adds extra colour.
Call me a philistine, but I have small patience for Samuel Beckett, can tolerate only small doses of serial atonality, and am bored numb by recitative.
As environment secretary and foreign secretary, Mrs Beckett was living at the grace and favour Admiralty House in Whitehall, which enabled her to rent out her London flat. For Foulkes Sake - step forward The Red Baron
Known as "Iron Gates," she's alo going to be a bit tougher on our team, especially Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett (Stana Katic). Castle Exclusive: Meet Castle and Beckett's New Captain!
The exemplary works of artistic autonomy were, for Adorno, the ‘experimental’ works of modernism, especially the music of Arnold Schoenberg and in literature the antinovels of Samuel Beckett.
Nikki Heat (instead of Kate Beckett) is the attractive, hard-shell cop he works with. Heat Wave by Richard Castle » DVDs Worth Watching
There were talks on physics, metaphysics, and pataphysics; readings of Jarry, Shakespeare, Beckett, Strindberg, Queneau, and Schwitters; performances of modern music and scientific film.
The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett, who wrote about human beings living a meaningless life in an alien, decaying world. He first play, Waiting fro Godot.
Beckett was an Old Labour warhorse, and she was damned if she was going to go easier on the electricity mega-corporations than her Tory predecessor.
But then, to date the integrity of Beckett's genius has survived all the fashions and the fads, and thankfully great art like his survives behind the times, ageless and indestructible.
None other than the environment secretary herself, the odious caravanner Margaret Beckett, announced yesterday that the UK would proceed on the basis of the lower carbon allowance that ministers had originally submitted, caving in to the commission after it had refused to permit an increase in the allocation. We have become more powerful VIII
Chaplin's appeal was perhaps a bit more audience-pleasing; certainly, he was much more sentimental than Keaton, whose predilection for absurdism ultimately led to collaborations with existentialist Samuel Beckett.
The most obvious link with Beckett is absurdism.
Though they performed only in café-theatres and beer halls, even such notables as Beckett and Brecht recognized their greatness.
The children, pupils of William Harrison School and Beckett School in Gainsborough, were treated for minor injuries, such as whiplash, at Lincoln County Hospital.
[3] Beckett's French translation of Murphy gives the "mew" in West Brompton as "l'impasse de l'Enfant JÃ©sus," introducing a Christian reference into the city grid. Beckett: Still Stirring
Now try getting an autograph from the Portland Sea Dogs 'Josh Beckett. USATODAY.com - 'Fan-friendly' has meaning in the minors
In 1938 he was the subject of an offensive caricature in Samuel Beckett's Murphy, where his experiments with Gaelic prosody and his sexual repression are mocked in the figure of Austin Ticklepenny.
Antonin Artaud, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Cioran himself were among the writers about whom Sontag wrote most enthusiastically. A Very Public Intellectual
David Lynch used the same technique of dramatically over-extended emotion to telling effect in Twin Peaks, but both contemporary satirists have really borrowed the idea from the high avatar of absurdism Samuel Beckett.
Now, isonomy is an English word meaning 'equality of laws, or of people before the law', as is attunement, but not so "apmonia"; where did Beckett get it? Languagehat.com: APMONIA.
Over the weekend, the town of Arromanches unveiled a smart memorial to Major Allan Beckett of the Royal Engineers, the genius behind the anchors which kept the vast artificial Mulberry Harbour in one piece. Home | Mail Online
Beckett and Al were nice guys, yeah, but so liberal and unmilitary that they spent all their time on other things - like the day care center - and let Security get lax.
Nothing symbolised this political bankruptcy better yesterday than the abject sight of Labour's Margaret Beckett and Keith Vaz joining a quartet of large and small-c conservatives – William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind, Douglas Hurd and Geoffrey Howe in a mendaciously misleading attack on AV. AV referendum: Building bridges | Editorial
After all, Coetzee is widely considered as following in the line of Kafka and Beckett.
Yet, like the best of Beckett's dialogues, McDonough's theater of the absurd -- the show's title is the intentionally misspelled and lowercased "reck room" -- has a few good ideas to share. Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint
The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure
Hello and welcome to World Business Report. I'm Tanya Beckett.
I'm not sure what Beckett meant by referring to our ‘showing off’, but let me now do so!
Beckett shows what it is like to be aware in a single moment, rather than drifting in the slipstream of culturally mediated discursive patterns of thought.
His characters are often marginal to the point of near nonexistence, Beckett's clochards with backstories, Conrad's adventurers in a shabbier key.
In the psychic menagerie of Bion and Klein, Beckett may also have found hints for the protohuman organisms, the worms and bodiless heads in pots, that populate his various underworlds. The Making of Samuel Beckett

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