How To Use Biography In A Sentence

Stark gave Izzard the warmest of welcomes and seems to have put no obstacle in the way of a biography.
a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose
Moceanu has written an autobiography, had book signings and cashed in on corporate and commercial appearances.
A short autobiography is prefixed to the 1827 edition of Juvenal.
In closing, I would like to reflect upon what I think was the most disturbing, and unnoticed, subtheme of Van Sant's film biography of Harvey Milk. Archive 2009-01-01

The tone of Nicholls' biography is dispassionately respectful, admiring even.
I had just published my autobiography, which met with universal disapproval. Times, Sunday Times
What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography. Times, Sunday Times
There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, saccharorrhea patient wants the reality treatment this question certainly not to want to readily believe some not symbol actual suitable biography.
I asked the guy who would bowdlerize Larry Niven if given the chance this question: "If someone was writing the biography of your life, would you want it to have a sex scene? Bowdlerized
On the downside, this dependency on biography and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right.
In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
A ghosted autobiography requires a deep bond between sportsman and journalist. Times, Sunday Times
Each character is given a home instance, personalized to their biography choices, located in their racial capital - Hoelbrak for the norn, the Grove for the sylvari, and so forth.
In his biography Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O'Connor reveals that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946.
How grateful and enlightened he must be to have that cleared up: one wouldn't want a thicko to write one's autobiography.
Well, you can wait for the autobiography or you can come with me to shop for formalwear.
Maraniss's balanced biography is not a "pathography," obsessive about its subject's defects. Rough Rider In Green Bay
They're rerunning a two-part ‘Biography for Kids’ that Harry did, visiting the set and interviewing the folks behind, in and under the Muppets.
Why nobody has ever written a biography of David is beyond me.
There is biography, hagiography and social, religious and political history. Times, Sunday Times
This is the first official biography of her and it is introduced by her daughter.
This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
One final irony: In 1950, at age 82, Millikan published his Autobiography, with Chapter 9 entitled simply "The Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Photon--Einstein's Photoelectric Equation.
A profile is a collection of information about the user, typically including a short biography and contextually appropriate facts.
A good biography is weakened by not giving the major biographical facts due prominence.
Keynes would have interpreted this as an extreme outbreak of liquidity-preference, says Paul Davidson, whose biography of the master has just been republished with a new afterword.
His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
Her mother, Jackiey, the daughter of a market trader, was described in her daughter's autobiography as a petty thief and "clipper" - a woman who pretends to be a prostitute but runs off with the money instead. DUFF & NONSENSE!
As he accepts, it would have been dishonest to write an autobiography without touching on this subject. Times, Sunday Times
The biography is an attempt to uncover the inner man.
The biography is a useful corrective to the myths that have grown up around this man.
I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz.
What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led.
Snow was an accomplished author as well, having published a biography of Anthony Trollope as well as several novels, including a whodunit.
This new biography will revive interest in an eccentric and rare polymath of the last century. Times, Sunday Times
His history is, he argued, "a biography of things, a filiation of objects, not as pictures of an exhibition, but as records of the process of their coming into existence. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion. Caravaggio
Publication of his biography was timed to coincide with his 70th birthday celebrations.
They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research.
The biggest surprise in this colourful biography is that its subject allowed it to be published. Times, Sunday Times
After all, in her 1993 autobiography she disclosed one or two juicier titbits contained in the files, which she was allowed to see soon after the Wall came down.
Her achievements are chronicled in a new biography out this week.
It takes a bold writer to attempt a biography of one of the most recognized and cited of Restoration Englishmen.
ANDREW MORTON, AUTHOR, "TOM CRUISE: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY": He could be in the position of what they call inspector general inside scientology. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008
Unless you want to write a very long biography indeed, a measure of rapid movement is in most cases unavoidable. The Times Literary Supplement
… reminds me of an image Deirdre Bair sketches in her biography of the game young Samuel used to play diving fearlessly from the tops of tall trees, crashing through branches to the ground. 2009 May 05 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Between these two positions lies a range of literacy activity, such as personal autobiography, diaries, functional lists etc.
Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction.
I don't want a biography of your old French wine - bibber. Flush of Gold
Some companies have used "biodata" a mash-up of the words biography and data. How to Ace a Google Interview
This is another very interesting part of the biography that is missing from the first print run.
He also wrote several short biographies on early identities to be included in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
While at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas next week, I’ll be signing copies of my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself in which I intimately share living with cerebral palsy to show others that cp is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence: Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » November
It is not everyday that you find an autobiography so disarmingly direct and candid.
The thing about this biography is that it is not fair, it is unbalanced and it is biased, and it is what John Howard would call a ‘black armband biography’.
He saved his carfares and went without lunch until he had enough money to buy an encyclopedia of American biography - and then he did an unheard-of thing.
Along the way he offers a sort of autobiography of his bibliomania, which takes him across New England and the rest of the country searching for old books.
This highly condensed biography allows little room for analysis.
The Guardian's Book Review has a review of his new biography of the grumpiest man in popular music, which advises you to snap it up quick before Van's solicitors run their toothcombs over it.
There are elements of autobiography in these acute, erudite, elegant and amusing essays. Times, Sunday Times
Matilda of Canossa had obsessed Maureen for the better part of the last two years, possessing her first when Maureen read the autobiography of the controversial countess, and then as she wrote her latest book in honor of this remarkable woman. The Poet Prince
The story she unfolds is both biography and intellectual parable. Times, Sunday Times
Film biography, a special film of genre with a long historic tradition, profound aesthetic particularity and stong vitality during the whole development of cinematics.
A brief preface goes before the first part which provides a brief biography of Hugo Wolf including the forming and development of his peculiar style.
This biography sometimes crosses the borderline between fact and fiction.
‘Biography’ scriptwriters churn out copy that is always simple, straightforward, and unrelievedly vanilla.
Prepare a two-line biography detailing your skills with a contact number.
Jack . Welch Autobiography & gt ; praised as " the Holy Bible of CEO ".
He said he would, but there were three more volumes of his biography and accompanying document collections to complete first. Times, Sunday Times
The letters were used as source material in this new biography.
The letters were used as source material in this new biography.
The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.
And he found time to write two volumes of autobiography in which he could give full vent to his views on theatre. Times, Sunday Times
Adams' biography confesses to concentrating less on the later years and this deprives the book of a conclusive judgment about its subject.
Sarah Bradford is right to spend two-thirds of her quiet, lucid biography on the years before the assassination.
While going through such varied sources, it is a great joy when one finds an autobiography or a biography or an unpublished piece of writing.
She wrote in her autobiography that The Manchurian Candidate was ‘a dynamite film,’ though she had worried about working with Frank Sinatra.
Ironically, it is only possible to write a cultural biography of this horse, insofar as it is possible, because of his multiply commodified status.
Mandelstam's attitude to the interrelation of biography and poetic persona was complex. The Times Literary Supplement
The sleeve notes include a short biography of the performers on this recording.
The major events of Woodman's biography have clearly marked her artistic growth.
The trailer actually undersells the film, while the storyboards and biography make for intriguing viewing.
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
Larkin had his diaries destroyed, Hardy burnt all his personal papers, then got his second wife to put her name to the biography he had actually written himself.
Maybe we could even rush out a quickie biography, explaining to the masses the meaning of Mr. Greenspan's life and work.
The Wonder edition includes an informative biography and a discography of his recordings.
Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
It is a famously unclassifiable book, part cultural criticism, part autobiography, mixing participant ethnography with literary analysis. The Times Literary Supplement
In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the atrociousness of the regime she worked for.
Life, as every biography and obit I have ever read confirms, is what happens when you are making other plans.
There is biography, hagiography and social, religious and political history. Times, Sunday Times
I think it's like the whole history of Italian art in the biography of one person. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning continues this tense push-pull struggle with biography throughout its pages.
I thought, 'Doing this autobiography is more serious than I thought. With No Ax to Grind
Through bursts of laughter he told me that the first extracts of the new biography about Jack have finally been landing on editors' desks.
Despite honourable exceptions, the ubiquitous dramatised biography has probably been the most accident-prone arts genre. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond the headlines inspired by his recent autobiography, it is easy to recognise just how the modern game has transformed his life. Times, Sunday Times
These texts, written in the style of 1980s bonkbuster novels but with the content of newsy autobiography, could change the face of publishing. Bonk-bios, the perfect beach books
The fifth was a biography of a famous writer, which Boy read twice with great fascination.
A ghosted autobiography requires a deep bond between sportsman and journalist. Times, Sunday Times
The result of her research is a new biography, Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson, which includes much unpublished material.
Earlier over lunch I had been three pages into a biography of the man who invented Freon when the article suddenly made no sense at all - instead of freon, it was now discussing Medieval paint technology.
They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research.
As well as being erudite, witty and utterly shameless, his autobiography shows he was capable of great mercy. Times, Sunday Times
These and other insights into a distinguished writer 's life are reason enough to read this chronological autobiography. Times, Sunday Times
But in light of his political biography there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government.
He is engaged on a biography of his father.
About 70,000 copies of the biography were published but it was soon suppressed by the German government. Times, Sunday Times
Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times
She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.
Record in my Notes to this Manuscript, but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the Text, I put no value on such: express Biography of me, I had really rather that there/[Page xviii]/should be none. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Sandrart's story of Caravaggio's death is easily interpreted as an apologue rather than as biography because there is so little ground to confuse moral and factual truths.
It is a great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country. Times, Sunday Times
I’m enjoying reading Carl Sandburg’s biography on Abraham Lincoln — it’s great writing, it’s informative, and I feel good after reading a chapter or two.
This biography makes it abundantly clear. Times, Sunday Times
George is the survivor, the cat with nine lives, and he has an autobiography for every one of them.
The script used is Potter's own condensed and Americanised version of the BBC's, written, according to Humphrey Carpenter's fine biography, in 1990.
He re-read his father's autobiography and realised they shared many character traits.
This autobiography will appeal most to those interested in the history of the Chattahoochee Valley.
It contains a potted biography, stressing the adulation and the good works. Times, Sunday Times
This new biography contains a wealth of previously unpublished material.
But I managed to correct and amplify an account of his biography and works sufficiently to provide a decent introduction to that edition. The Times Literary Supplement
In four volumes of autobiography and three books of journals he distilled much of the flavour of each decade of a remarkable century.
Both deeper and wider than a biography, the book documents and vivifies events that still affect us today.
A first-rate biography might have reminded the art world of his unique eloquence.
In The Name is not a Pilger biography but an account of Pilger's television work with which the journalist himself co-operated.
Certainly this critique of autobiography has validity; how many autobiographers are truly honest even with themselves, let alone with their readers, about themselves in narrative?
It's not a biography (although a brief bio of Powell is included).
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Over the centuries, Laozi's life took on elements of the mythological hero's biography.
So it is with biography and particularly royal biography, a genre that does not suffer from publishing neglect. The Times Literary Supplement
He is currently trying to give up smoking as a full-time displacement activity while working on a literary biography. Times, Sunday Times
Yet men dominate in this field also, even in fiction, poetry, literary biography.
This is in essence a short and rather conventional biography which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge.
His life is chronicled in a new biography published last week.
With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected biography of an unaffected great man.
Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography.
His official NASA biography listed a diverse number of hobbies -- oil painting, woodworking, motorcycling, and racquetball, to name a few. Jim Noles: Twenty-Five Years Ago, We Lost More Than a Space Shuttle
After Lacroix, Man Ray spent about six years with the famed Parisian demi-mondaine Kiki de Montparnasse, to whom he devoted an entire chapter in his autobiography.
In simplest terms, he is a computer security celebrity junketeer, a highly specialized occupation somewhat obscured by an official biography bulging with professional-strength acronyms.
And he found time to write two volumes of autobiography in which he could give full vent to his views on theatre. Times, Sunday Times
As he wrote in his autobiography: 'I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. Times, Sunday Times
He said he would, but there were three more volumes of his biography and accompanying document collections to complete first. Times, Sunday Times
The biography explains the circumstances surrounding her fall from grace.
Review: Biography: Polo reminted: A study that strips away the myths to let us see the great Venetian traveller afresh delights Kevin Rushby: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen 448pp, Quercus, pounds 19.99 Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, by Laurence Bergreen
Still, autobiography may be the land of the invented past but, when the person is interesting enough and the life is large enough, the compensations are considerable.
The eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has sometimes been labeled a hagiographer for the Camelot chords he struck, but A Thousand Days is an intricate and serious narrative biography with sweeping historical themes and incisive drypoint character sketches. American Sketches
Mr. Scheuer is out to present something perhaps slightly different from a biography — more a guide to understanding Osama bin Laden, with biographic features included, because he sees bin Laden as America's central adversary. America's Most Wanted
Her book is not only a biography, but the detailed chronicle of a social milieu. The Times Literary Supplement
There is a story told in his otherwise unrevealing autobiography which nicely illuminates the practical side of this pursuit of goodness.
This new biography is the first to consider fully the writer's gestalt.
Biography fleshes out the daily realities of living as aliens in your own land and provides insight into indigenous history over the entire 20th century.
Known as a master of tokiwazu bushi, a Japanese song featured in Kabuki plays, she published her autobiography two years ago. Autopsy Disclosed
He said he'd been working hard recently on his autobiography, which was now half finished.
This biography sometimes crosses the borderline between fact and fiction.
This accessible mini-biography rejects these simplicities and presents a much more rounded account.
Even European history of the period was an official or semi-official biography of the state.
He was an occasional obituarist for The Independent and The Guardian and a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography.
In his autobiography, he explains in detail why it did not become a worldwide business.
The library also has a wide range of titles on gardening, cookery, history, computers, biography and travel.
It is a great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country. Times, Sunday Times
In his Autobiography he reports a personal experience of racial harassment.
Whilst it could be argued that it is po-faced to talk about truth in the biography of a fictional character, the counter-argument is that the constant toying with fiction and fact is ultimately frustrating.
In ways that this biography seems not entirely to appreciate, Kennan's far-sighted opposition to American over-militarisation makes his personal career history less gripping than his legacy.
In his autobiography, King mentioned that when he "chivved" someone (interesting that the slang hasn't changed), he was always careful to draw the blade downwards across the face, never upwards or sideways, so as not to slash a major artery. A Night With Annie Nightingale; Mary Anne's Send Off Show; Bandits of the Blitz; Jamie Cullum
Film biography, a special film of genre with a long historic tradition, profound aesthetic particularity and stong vitality during the whole development of cinematics.
He was reading the Russell autobiography in order to steady himself for the selection procedure.
Burderop farmer Charles W Whatley recalls his schooldays at Swindon High School in his autobiography Farming And Foxhunting published c1940, where Mr Snell had the reputation of pushing on the smart and forward boys. Undefined
I was intrigued to read in your autobiography that your relationship with your parents was starchy and formal, while you were close to your grandmother.
Also archaeologists, the Gears apply over thirty years of research with their backgrounds in biblical archaeology, religious studies, Greek, and Latin, to reveal a new and relatively unknown and historically unsupported biography of Jesus Christ, or Yeshua. “The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus” by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear (Forge, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
Tebow's autobiography, audaciously written when he was merely a 23-year-old second-string quarterback most critics called a miscast running back, came out in June. USATODAY.com News
In her autobiography, she describes the song's genesis late one night in a Dublin bar.
It makes one wonder how much of the speech is true and how much is false, based on Stalin's tendency toward revisionism of his revolutionary biography.
Hence, the new image was done on the basis of Don Bosco's little biography of the boy Saint as well as eyewitness accounts gathered for the process of Canonisation .
Greenblatt instead wants to write, and most consumers of literary biography want to read, a story extraordinary and uplifting.
This new biography contains a wealth of previously unpublished material.
The first two installments of a projected seven-volume biography of one of the portlier Founding Fathers. Cover to Cover
According to his biography, he wrote and recorded parts of this album while living in the studio for two months.
Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times
Rowlandson intersperses her autobiography with numerous quotations from the Bible.
It's been promoted as the biography that lays bare the truth behind the legend.
But Wyler is barely more visible in his biography than in his films.
For now Ricky is busy attending book signings around the country to promote his autobiography Ricky.
In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers.
As it cools, write another autobiography. The Sun
Drummund, who was also a biographer for Billy Graham, wrote an excellent biography on Finney which deals with this.
Her book is a mesh of biography and a wider history of the geisha.
One might have thought such an unlikely colossus of Australian political history would have encouraged a few level-headed intellectuals and journalists to write a serious biography.
His autobiography is set to become a massive hit - but it seems not even the England captain can topple Harry Potter from top spot.
Despite honourable exceptions, the ubiquitous dramatised biography has probably been the most accident-prone arts genre. Times, Sunday Times
In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
ANDREW MORTON, AUTHOR, "DIANA: HER TRUE STORY": Well, I was writing a biography of Diana, and we had a mutual friend called James Coldhurst (ph). CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2004
Further, Langdon deems the sculpture — which depicts St. Teresa of Avila in spiritual ecstasy, based on a description in her autobiography — as pornographic, as it supposedly depicts the saint “on her back in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm.” Ron Howard, Angry & Demeaning?
While trying to help starving villagers, Yunus met a 21-year-old woman named Sufia Begum, who was burdened by a tiny yet crushing debt, Yunus recalled in his autobiography, "Banker to the Poor.
I, Dreyfus takes the form of its eponymous hero's autobiography, penned while in prison.
The thesis is divided into five parts as follows:"Introduction"presents a brief biography of Lyman Frank Baum and a brief introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The sleeve notes include a short biography of the performers on this recording.
IT was supposed to be his grand comeback - a new album and autobiography out on consecutive days after months of hard work. The Sun

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