How To Use Biographical In A Sentence

The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
A Serious Man" draw from their writer-directors 'personal histories, while "Nine" reimagines Fellini's semiautobiographically impressionistic "8 as a musical. Variety.com
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
There was a biographical note about the author on the back of the book.
People assume that the novel is semi-autobiographical.

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Penelope-like, she both weaves a narrative and contextual account of Lippi's life and work and unpicks her handiwork, creatively frustrating the reader's expectation of biographical closure.
A good biography is weakened by not giving the major biographical facts due prominence.
Up until two weeks ago, he painted and cranked out brief, autobiographical vignettes - one a day.
His novels were biographical and nonbiographical at the same time. The St. Petersburg Times
From plastic abstraction to documentary reportage, from psychic investigation to political pamphleteering, from the autobiographical essay to a demonstration of the powers of montage, from graphic and textural work to militant revindication - Whitehead's work accomplishes an exceptional synthesis, open to every different dimension of avant-garde cinema, tending towards percpetual explosion and euphoric fusion with phenomena. GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10.
I think I've thought up an appropriate competitor name The Paper...you know, like The Rock, only wussier, but I haven't come up with any fake biographical information, a fake self-reported skill level, or anything like that, because I've been too busy...well, too lazy. My meager attempt to spice things up.
His eyes were red and I knew why he couldn't express emotion in his autobiographical work. Times, Sunday Times
Serious readers will value the digressions spread among the condensed descriptions of famous events and brief biographical sketches.
Knowing that his kind of work is often autobiographical, one can't help but wonder if his family and friends recognise themselves in his characters. Times, Sunday Times
These biographical insights are harmless enough. Times, Sunday Times
With heavy-lidded eyes, wide-open mouths or rubber-hosey limbs, Satrapi's characters convey everything from gleeful, kinetic action to stark terror to heart-rending anguish-which is perfectly fitting for the autobiographical Frames Per Second Magazine
Some of the pieces seemed autobiographical, others were clearly completely fictional, but there was a lot more focus on emotion, memory, and poetic language (example: "the blue sky hanging in acres above the yellow leaves") than I have in my own work or am used to seeing in SF. Hotlips writing workshop
Both the semi-autobiographical Denisovich and the non-ficiton Archipelago described Gulag life in harrowing detail, and forced the West to finally acknowledge the grave human rights abuses perpetrated inside Stalin’s brutal work camps, which at their peak housed more than two million prisoners. Russian Gulags: Then and Now | Disinformation
It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor. The Life of the Lives
WARD: "Born to be a Loser" would have been called autobiographical, if Donley had had the insights others had into him. Jimmy Donley: A 'Born Loser' Finally Gets His Due
In 1986 Pryor himself directed and starred in the semi-autobiographical tale, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling.
He said that his agreements with these autobiographical subjects were not recorded in writing.
And some information is aimed at those book browsers who are interested in biographical details concerning more artistic and intellectual matters.
He found some alleviation from self-torment in _David Copperfield_, and he determined to borrow a feather from 'the master's' pinion -- in other words, to place an autobiographical novel to his credit. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
And yet these two biographical details provide important clues to an understanding of Magnard's peculiar psychological makeup.
Paradoxically, the first lie they tend to tell interviewers is that their works are not autobiographical. Times, Sunday Times
We could consult an American biographical dictionary, in case Burdett left a lasting mark.
And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But it was an autobiographical account. Times, Sunday Times
My own approach is not biographical, and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence.
This biographical detail is often imagined to be his nadir, but the truth is that he had passed that point.
In truth, he has written as easily about love as he has about tyranny, as nimbly about rabid dictators as about powerless artists; he has given us "Vargas Llosa light," in delightfully erotic (thinly veiled autobiographical) stories, and "Vargas Llosa dark," in elaborately researched and profoundly illuminating historical novels. The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize
In his Biographical Memoir he has ably answered the criticisms of his character.
Instead there is a formless narrative stodge, a summary report of a life, high on biographical fact and very low on the literary qualities he valued most.
His delightful memoir is a worthy addition to the long list of autobiographical works detailing complex relationships between fathers and sons. Times, Sunday Times
The music itself feels like it could be an extolment of the "day," but the words push the mood into a darker meditation on isolation - though not necessarily an autobiographical one. NPR Topics: News
Biographical information is included in brackets.
It's a semi-auto biographical novel about a cop, Detective chief Inspector Jack Priestley, and his best friend, reformed criminal Steve Blade.
Last year he published his second autobiographical work, Straight. Times, Sunday Times
Why do you use this common voice, and how autobiographical is the way he lives in, and reacts to, the world? A Conversation with Arthur Bradford author of Dogwalker
Katla is most like me, I suppose, at an emotional core, though there is nothing autobiographical about her life. Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author
I would never write autobiographically as I tend to write as an alternative to my life, not a repetition or imitation of it. Maggie O'Farrell - An interview with author
It's about a lonely adolescent called Blakemore and meditates on education, faith and teen friendship in the distant days before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.Hare denies South Downs is entirely autobiographical and yet Blakemore's absentee father is a sailor, just as Hare's was, and his mother sees education as a tool for creating a secure adult life. David Hare: 'It's absurd, but I feel insecure'
Recently Read has also done comedy gigs, regaling audiences with chilling autobiographical tales while assuring nervous listeners he has never hurt a woman, child or innocent person.
He has taken the autobiographical genre and adapted it to suit his own particular requirements.
The new work, for example, is somewhat autobiographical, a self-indulgence that once he would not have allowed himself.
Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection .... GreenCine Daily
That is, in biographical terms they seem to be "modern" rather than "traditional" Republicans. Balkinization
And there are the autobiographical grasses, exposing old secrets and betraying ancient confidences in exchange for sales.
Events in Afghanistan serve as a spur for biographical flashbacks showing how Gen. Petraeus grappled with similar challenges in past commands. Measuring the Man in Charge
One of his most autobiographical works, it follows a gilded couple torn apart by wealth and mental instability. Times, Sunday Times
Rozema's adaptation uses the novel as source material, but also incorporates biographical information about Austen herself and excerpts from her adolescent writing.
Even relatively obscure players are accorded brief biographical sketches if there is sufficient information about them.
If that happens, it may well be a triumph of biographical scholarship, but it's apt to have literary consequences too.
It went on to sell more than two million copies and has been followed by four more autobiographical accounts. The Sun
They are as well worth reading as the biographical works under review and much better history than the previous biographies published. The Times Literary Supplement
It's been a while since one of the great composers got a thorough biographical going-over, but I gather that the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has interesting stuff to say about his hero, JS Bach, in the Penguin volume due for early 2008.
He wrote his first two piano concertos as largely autobiographical works. Times, Sunday Times
It turns out, this biographical information speaks more of Dowse's sense of humour than it does of his academic qualifications.
I think first person autobiographical is a starting point in writing and that we grow in maturity as we try to see through the eyes of others. Post mortem
This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit.
A brief preliminary reminder of certain biographical facts will help the reader to follow them. Familiar Letters of William James I
Moving easily from fantasy to fact, Myerscough-Jones applied his skills to Orde Wingate (1976), a much praised biographical study of the wartime Chindit leader, who was played by Barry Foster. Top stories from Times Online
Good writing, of course, is able to rise above literal, biographical material.
My biographical dictionary describes Virginia Woolf as ‘the archetypal modernist‘.
Reports by patients of memory loss are of the erasing of autobiographical memories or retrograde amnesia.
Another concertinaed together ghost-writing, biographical writing and the formation of literary movements, as collaborative processes of the same ilk.
Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder. Erica Abeel: WHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION
Ron Rosenbaum recently wrote something similar about Dmitri Nabokov's reluctance to have his father's legacy embroiled in biographical controversy: Canonical Writers
When not advising on art, she is writing a semiautobiographical novel. Times, Sunday Times
A more personal take on the costs of displacement appears in British artist Isaac Julien's semi-autobiographical film Paradise Omeros.
It is interesting that political sympathies did not lead the editors to over-represent women or minorities among their biographical subjects.
In many cases, recruiters should also go beyond checking biographical information, he added. Times, Sunday Times
Yet there are discrepancies between some of these biographical details and those of Raja. Times, Sunday Times
These are his most obviously autobiographical works. Times, Sunday Times
Only now do we know just how autobiographical these three novels really were.
The urn is not an urn at all, but a clue to an allegorical or narrative (usually biographical but sometimes more broadly historical) level. Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn
He organizes his record collection, for example, not by performers or topics, but autobiographically, by when he bought a record and why.
Ingleby Gallery, to 14 MayRobert ClarkA centrepiece to this small exhibition is the manuscript of HS Ede's Savage Messiah, a 1929 biographical novel that charts the extraordinary, short career of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska before the sculptor was killed in the trenches in 1915. This week's new exhibitions
The most famous published autobiographical accounts of the intercontinental trade were predominately male.
These are his most obviously autobiographical works. Times, Sunday Times
Known for dense black-and-white photomontages created from photo fragments and imagery from books and magazines, her work has drawn on autobiographical and literary sources, and speaks to her fractured identity.
In addition to the standard artist information -- a blog, concert itinerary, biographical and discographical notes -- his team also compiled many videos of previous shows, and created a new home for his publishing company (Lojac Music), which also sells his sheet music and bass solo transcriptions. NPR Topics: News
It's about a lonely adolescent called Blakemore and meditates on education, faith and teen friendship in the distant days before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.Hare denies South Downs is entirely autobiographical and yet Blakemore's absentee father is a sailor, just as Hare's was, and his mother sees education as a tool for creating a secure adult life. David Hare: 'It's absurd, but I feel insecure'
The implication is that it could all have been worked out by theory without all the messy biographical details. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
A brief biographical sketch of each author is also provided before each selection.
Surviving DSE archival records contain biographical summaries of such 'accomplished' KKE/DSE women, samples of which were published in the Athenian daily Eleftherotipia on 22 January 1986. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
The problem is, there's just enough biographical detail here to whet the appetite for more. Times, Sunday Times
And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The author's researches have quarried further bits of biographical data and sometimes helpful sidelights and background information on various situations and personalities.
Even as he held magisterial power over the audience (he asked for quiet and got it) during the autobiographical ‘Freehold,’ Springsteen offered not an oversincere paean to his hometown but an acerbically funny look at small-town life.
His autobiographical writings gave him an opportunity to do so, yet he failed to take it. The Times Literary Supplement
I'm generally unsympathetic to autobiographical works.
There is a wealth of marvellous biographical detail here, with the leading players lit up in the full glare of the garish footlights.
The biographical and even impressionistic touches of his never confuse the reader nor make him/her lose track of the transcendence of the doctrine exposed, no more than the multiplicity of theophanies should make one forget the essential unity of the transpersonal Absolute. Introducing Jean Biès
Dundes is to be congratulated on his choice of essayists and on his clear exposition of their key ideas placed in an illuminating historical and autobiographical context.
He often depicts donkeys, which he says he feels are autobiographical. Times, Sunday Times
I chose this title because, for me, there is a kind of biographical reminiscence contained in it, first of all the experience of my expatriation and finally my return to Prague.
One hundred college students retrieved autobiographical memories associated with panic, trauma, worry, and social anxiety.
Finally, on the biographical debit side there are the usual miscellaneous acts of thoughtlessness, rudeness and generally shabby behaviour.
The biggest error the doubters make, Shapiro says, is to believe that dramatists and other authors in Shakespeare's day made a habit of autobiographically inserting themselves into their own works. Taking On The Doubters
Of course, literary critics should always be careful about reading too much biographical detail into works of fiction. The Times Literary Supplement
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Another moment of wonder was near the end of this autobiographical work. Times, Sunday Times
He is worried about a literary culture in which the “biographical will triumph over the exegetic.” Argument and monologue
But it was an autobiographical account. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes were red and I knew why he couldn't express emotion in his autobiographical work. Times, Sunday Times
His autobiographical writings gave him an opportunity to do so, yet he failed to take it. The Times Literary Supplement
Their experiences and rhetoric are often hard to disentangle in the autobiographical strata of the novel.
The site contains details of his weekly diary, questions he has asked and speeches he has made to Parliament as well as his biographical details.
Illustrations for The Monkey Wrench Gang, a 1986 book about a fictional group of eco-warriors, appear alongside autobiographical strips done for The New Yorker.
When the other two return, assuming Ferdinand does, Terry's resurrection will be a fait accompli which they either accept or store up as autobiographical cordite for when Don Fabio stands down. Fabio Capello risks all by giving John Terry his bark back | Paul Hayward
Their biographical information suggests that they are as suited to it as anyone in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ... Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
The third story was the most autobiographical one, built in part around my own struggles with my family and their abnegation of any feeling of responsibility.
Additionally, brief biographical sketches are scattered throughout the book to introduce the reader to the major players in the drama that unfolded at Mobile.
I began this essay autobiographically and I bring it to a close autobiographically.
The Brisbane intellectual property lawyer whipped out a guitar and sang her way through her session, a reading from her semi-autobiographical novel.
Based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda, Padre Padrone is filmed in Sardinian, a regional Italian dialect. An Experiment for Fake Memoirs - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The sites shared administrative costs, selectors and a catalogue which included an illustration and biographical details for each artist.
Another method is the autobiographical method where you project your own experiences into the fictional character, though this is not necessarily one you should use most. NaNoWriMo Workshop – Character « Write Anything
Much of Morrison's work is autobiographical but he says this is his most personal project yet.
Glen or Glenda is a semi-autobiographical tale about Glen's major life crisis.
He wrote his first two piano concertos as largely autobiographical works. Times, Sunday Times
Nobel lecture that follows, and since the standard biographical folderol is most easily found online at www. scripps.edu/chem/sharpless/, I hope to provide K. Barry Sharpless - Autobiography
In his autobiographical musings, he has repressed this crucial English primal scene. The Times Literary Supplement
The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva.
It is my present intention to blend the account of your brother's early life, published in the stereotype edition, with certain historical memoranda which he has left in considerable abundance, together with his correspondence, and such authentic anecdotes as I can collect among his friends and acquaintance, into a Biographical Sketch, and perhaps leave the composition and style to some abler pen. Letter 388
Many laudatory speeches during birthday parties and eulogies during funerals simply skip over this time and construct biographical outlines without these years.
Veteran filmmaker Ira Sach's autobiographically inspired, intensely vulnerable, and sexually charged Keep The Lights On chronicles the drug-induced disintegration of an impassioned relationship between an emerging documentary filmmaker and a closeted lawyer living in New York in the 1990s. Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2012 Top Picks: Keeping Us Human
Growing Up in Slavery presents young readers with intense, autobiographical stories of 10 slaves as they recall their early lives in bondage.
In the first place, we must accept that the purely biographical narratives are compressed accounts: they are stories, and they are stories which march at a smart pace.
De Man called this biographical trope personification, prosopopoeia, literally "giving face" to an inanimate collection of words, transforming them into the features of a human life. The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
Much of his work is autobiographical but he says this is his most personal project yet.
Stewart published brief biographical sketches of the earliest Scottish chartered accountants in the second half of the 19th century.
In his biographical criticism this took the form of showing how popular sentiment acting on suggestible minds simplified people into myths.
The film is autobiographical and the central character is played by Collard himself.
He supplies almost no autobiographical material and tries to come across as just a regular guy.
And with each biographical effort to understand him, that enigma has become more, not less, obscure.
This autobiographical tale set in 1907 follows young Alexander and his sister Fanny as they struggle with their father's death and mother's hasty remarriage to an authoritarian clergyman.
There was a biographical note about the author on the back of the book.
It is a biographical experiment, but a deeply humane and sensitive one. Times, Sunday Times
Her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, appeared under her own name in 1971.
He swears that the book isn't autobiographical, but is something of an exercise in wish fulfilment. Times, Sunday Times
There's also a lively biographical sketch of each poet and a dictionary geared to the poems. Times, Sunday Times
First, it could well be the case that writers become more autobiographical as time goes on.
It is an autobiographical satire whose neurotic, dark-skinned protagonist, Emma Lou Morgan, internalizes biases against dark-complexioned people after a midwestern upbringing by colorstruck relatives mimicking racist societal values.
Constance spent nearly five years researching and editing the new collection as well as writing the first biographical study of Isabella, who was a contemporary of William Wordsworth.
Thus this work can be read as autobiographical, sometimes more specifically as representing a triangle in which the man is Rodin, the imploring young woman, Camille, and the old woman, Rose Beuret, or more generally as a symbolic representation of the painful break between Claudel and Rodin.
They are as well worth reading as the biographical works under review and much better history than the previous biographies published. The Times Literary Supplement
There are long biographical interludes on the major figures, but no sustained attempt to convey the psychology of the individuals.
Obviously, the central biographical facts in all of these volumes must necessarily be identical.
The biographical half of his book is hard-going, a trudge through lumpen text that often lacks cohesion. The Disappearing Maestro
His novels are largely autobiographical, ie though fictional they describe many of his own experiences.
Many laudatory speeches during birthday parties and eulogies during funerals simply skip over this time and construct biographical outlines without these years.
The 10-meeting course will include the study of leading composers, style of writing and biographical detail.
He often depicts donkeys, which he says he feels are autobiographical. Times, Sunday Times
Each volume contains a short biographical introduction whilst the first two have forewords.
The Friendly Tree was the first of three largely autobiographical novels.
The voice-over narration and flashbacks provide an autobiographical as well as retrospective cast to the film.
It went on to sell more than two million copies and has been followed by four more autobiographical accounts. The Sun
You had, however, to concentrate hard to pick up that biographical detail from this annoyingly uninquisitive film. Times, Sunday Times
The film is autobiographical and the central character is played by Collard himself.
She's now on the road with her one-woman play, Wishful Drinking, a funny autobiographical story about addiction, mental illness and being the product of what she calls "Hollywood in-breeding. Back in the bikini? Carrie Fisher drops 50 pounds with Jenny Craig
Tynan, in contrast, creates a prefacing section entitled ‘Early Irish Writers,’ whose pagination in roman numerals underlines its marginality, and in which shortened biographical sketches are included without any excerpted texts.
This article will provide a brief biographical sketch of Barnes's life and a discussion of his legacy as a Baptist and as a teacher and writer.
Largely autobiographical, the novel concerns itself with Hannah, a biracial house slave educated by a white couple who lived on the outskirts of the plantation where she was born.
I was offering a brief biographical sketch of the life of Emmeline Pankhurst!
Biography sugan has not submitted biographical details. Eggheadcafe.com articles
This massive autobiographical work was the logical culmination of her long career.
His delightful memoir is a worthy addition to the long list of autobiographical works detailing complex relationships between fathers and sons. Times, Sunday Times
He also wrote an autobiographical novel in the cruel and sentimental manner: characters as puppets on a string.
he seldom suppressed his autobiographical tendencies
Something that does worry/bother me is they are some of mainstreams “first” introduction to comics (political and biographical). Why I Won’t Cover Bluewater » Comics Worth Reading
He never wrote so autobiographically again; his life remained creatively off-limits.
Fortunately the autobiographical element doesn't predominate.
So it sounds like there is an autobiographical angle to some of the things that you write.
Many great religious figures have left behind autobiographical writings, but not so many have left journals or diaries. Times, Sunday Times
Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype. This week's new comedy
He wrote his first two piano concertos as largely autobiographical works. Times, Sunday Times
Book One, On the Pythagorean Life, has biographical aspects but is primarily a detailed description of and a protreptic for the Pythagorean way of life. Pythagoreanism
Instead it is some personality traits rather than biographical detail Brydon and Keith have in common.
You'll begin to see the autobiographical odds and ends that are hidden in his work.
He is interesting when identifying personalities and providing biographical material to enliven the narrative.
His collection of autobiographical essays is studded with the kind of homespun homilies so beloved of salty old backwoodsmen and Presidential candidates: ‘Hard work is where a man finds peace,’ for example.
Many great religious figures have left behind autobiographical writings, but not so many have left journals or diaries. Times, Sunday Times
The book seemed clearly autobiographical. The Times Literary Supplement
Two autobiographical pieces from that time interpreted the illness through voodoo imagery and, he believes, produced a cure.
I now, in this hasty, feeble, and divaricated biographical sketch, approach the great and favourite work of my admired friend, _The The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829
This study also relies on biographical accounts and primary historical documentation.
Death of Muhammad Amin al-Muhibbi (b. 1651), a Damascene scholar who compiled a biographical dictionary of 17th-century personages in the Middle East (Khulasat al-athar) and a massive anthology of contemporary poetry (Nafhat al-rayhana). 1695
Like Youth, the play appears to contain autobiographical elements, but here the subject is eld.
Above all, it is his honesty, his willingness to draw on biographical detail that infuses this novel with sad, disarming charm.
He plays himself, reminiscing autobiographically about his eventful life on and off Broadway as a producer.
From prose through haiku-like passages, prime lyric moments, epic adventures and noir scenes, to what seem to be autobiographical insights, the volume accretes a sense of absurd fullness of vision.
They research for biographical, theoretical and historical points of decision makings and portray an unusual life between philosophy and revolt.
The catalogue, filled with biographical detail, reads more like an article for Tatler.
The body of fragmentary biographical material presented here owes its existence to Horn's impulse to self-advertisement.
Sure, his songs may allude to past loves, events and episodes of his life, but they never provide the listener with solid biographical insight.
There are some interesting autobiographical reflections, but also the expected helping of racial and class resentment.

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