How To Use Memoir In A Sentence

Their memoirs have supplied a level of authenticity and detail unavailable to previous film-makers.
Daniel Defoe, The Consoli - dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (London, 1705). COSMIC VOYAGES
This, perhaps the greatest period of an already great life, has been sensitively written about by memoirists and historians.
At times, his book reads more like a political manifesto than a rock memoir. Times, Sunday Times
Someone who writes a literary memoir, for example, is by necessity examining issues of self and identity.

There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography. Times, Sunday Times
Hunkin's page coincided with our acquisition of this book by the delightfully-named Shifty Burke, Memoirs of a safe-breaker, published by Arthur Baker Ltd in 1966.
War poetry and memoirs tell a more honest story. Times, Sunday Times
I told her no; gave her the names of a few funny memoirists who have chronicled their experiences dealing with weight issues in the ‘dating game,’ and sent her on her way.
On a lighter note, Luke Haines, the indie pop star who dresses like John Betjeman, will be reading from his memoirs and performing acoustically Fri. This week's new live music
The Icelandic volcano EyjafjallajÃ¶kull, which generated by far the most buzz on the show floor, landed a seven-figure deal for a memoir that will cover its early days as a steam-venting fumarole right through to its headline-making eruption. Laurence Hughes: Things I'd Like to See This Weekend on C-SPAN's "Book TV"
He's negotiating a deal with American publishers for his memoirs. CHAMELEON
In these two wind-conscious memoirs, the word flutter appears often and imaginatively. Deconstructing Obama
His second memoir can thus be read as a rather coy critique of his first.
They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption. A Reader's Manifesto
To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous. Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
Are you looking for the questions, the aide-memoire?
Socialist affiliations are recorded in the memoirs of the stone-mason Nadaud, the draughtsman Perdiguier and Suzanne Voilquin, who was a needlewoman.
I fully expect in the future we shall have misery memoirs written by parents. The Sun
Those who are put off by misery memoirs in general should avoid it. Times, Sunday Times
Having said that, the Memoirs, along with the substantial introduction, do give readers the flavour of the Regency period during which Harriette flourished.
Gaisberg summed it up in his memoirs: ‘Caruso was the decoy that brought other hesitating celebrities to our recording studios.’
Most of these sources were narrative documents: chronicle accounts, memoirs, government records, past histories.
According to Lafayette in his Mémoires, Clinton was so sure of his success in advance that he invited a number of ladies and gentlemen to a party in Philadelphia where the marquis was to be the featured guest. Angel in the Whirlwind
So I feel very disquieted by any suggestion that this is a memoir showing people how possible it is to make the most of a bad start, how to love parents who have behaved atrociously, how to somehow miraculously rise above trauma out of sheer good will. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
The rest of his account is padded out with speeches: a pity, since the family memoir works well on its own and is of more enduring interest.
The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
His memoirs are simply a blow-by-blow account of battles, and contain very little personal comment or reflection.
Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir.
The spectacular mistiming of his own 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, doomed the book to short-term infamy and long-term obscurity. Deconstructing Obama
But you know, I just am not the type of person who is comfortable with writing a memoir centered, as memoirs are, on the self.
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, By Himself, published in 1845, is another example I cited -- "passionate, demanding, denunciatory, self-analytical: 'autobiographies' now differed from people's 'memoirs,' as their authors challenged themselves and the world to be honest about their own lives. Nigel Hamilton: Bush and Memoirs
In 1803 she completed her translation of Job, and was encouraged to translate the Klopstock memoirs for publication.
Realism and myth, lyrical memoir and contemporary reality, combine in the highly individual texture of his prose, which expresses the heart-searchings of a solitary man with a restless social conscience.
Much of the book deals with scandals and questions of "truthfulness" - the very questions that have dominated the conversation about memoir in recent years. SMITH Magazine Superfeed
When a critic reviews a memoir, she's inevitably tempted not just to review the author's presentation of his life, but to re-present that life in her own terms.
The early parts of this memoir are undoubtedly the liveliest and the most rewardingly detailed. The Times Literary Supplement
Once she entered the convent, Thérèse wrote poems, plays (in which she also acted), and her famous memoirs.
Mind you, quite a few have fallen off the perch, or committed social suicide by writing their boring memoirs. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Aging veterans are now adding their memoirs and personal accounts to the body of literature written in the first three decades after World War II.
The diegesis of Memoirs of a Midget, if not exactly traditional in every respect, nevertheless belongs to genres with which we are familiar.
Art "Maus" Spiegelman is publishing his memoir in comix form, entitled "Portrait of the Artist as a Young % @? Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives
It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs - it's a thumping good read.
In this study, memoirs and diaries, account books and statistics are used to forge an image of the life that went on in these houses.
If it puts you in a nostalgic mood, you should immediately obtain Frederick Turner's "Renegade"—an entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller's memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the dirtiest book in the world. In Praise Of the Gross
Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory.
Paul himself makes this very point at the outset of his book, arguing that when Roosevelt and Churchill secretly negotiated the Hyde Park aide-memoire in September 1944, they agreed to continue postwar atomic cooperation.
Reproductive photography of this sort remains bound to its function as the artist's record, as the engraver's aide-memoire, and as the low-quality alternative to the burin.
They should try and bequeath us their memoirs, autographies or a collection of their speeches to enable us benefit from their experience, knowledge and wisdom to serve as a guide to the present and future generations.
On the insistence of past pupils and their parents, Joan and Joscelyne wrote a short memoir of their life's work.
She plans to write her memoirs.
So information about her youth is inevitably scarce, apart from her own memoirs, which are bound to be somewhat distorted through the prism of time.
In his personal correspondence and in his published memoirs, Franklin comes across as a man dedicated to the external duties of war and exploration, who kept introspection and self-analysis to a minimum.
A poignant and often humorous memoir, full of energy and life. Times, Sunday Times
When he wrote his memoirs late in life, he recalled that this father had been a children's book writer.
The roué can't produce the heroic memoir that's expected of him, and smoke-free Vancouver, with its vegetarians and sexual-harassment policies, is not the haven he hoped for.
Part history, part science, part memoir, the book is a weaving, wandering thing, personal and essayistic.
Glew believes the memoirs imply Quasimodo is based on a real-life figure as they reference a carver named Trajan, who was employed by an unnamed scuptlor whose French nickname was le bossu, or "hunchback. Notre Dame's 'Real' Hunchback Uncovered By U.K. Archivist
Plante's memoir, American Ghosts, is no less powerful and no less stark.
Zab finds herself using the now obsolete narrative conventions of the memoir.
Memoirs are meant to set the record straight. Times, Sunday Times
The pair match the compositions of the left and right panels in the trio, and it is likely that Vuillard used the photographs as aides-memoires.
In his Biographical Memoir he has ably answered the criticisms of his character.
His delightful memoir is a worthy addition to the long list of autobiographical works detailing complex relationships between fathers and sons. Times, Sunday Times
Then he should write his memoirs. Times, Sunday Times
Enjoying a substantial social status, they produced topographical memoirs that provided information specifically devoted to the management of colonies by the state.
In a book that is part memoir and part sociological study, Wolf writes about the agonizing job girls face becoming women.
Peggy is keen to publish the sculptor's memoirs but Alice thinks the past holds no interest until some shocking revelations are disclosed.
Meanwhile, Madonna's estranged brother Chistopher Ciccone - who recently wrote a tell-all memoir entitled 'Life With My Sister Madonna' in which he branded Guy a "homophobe" - has expressed his upset at news of her divorce. Iac entertainment news
See, it's mostly about her and it's a memoir of her life when she was a freshman and sophomore in high school.
He might have referred to Alexander Dohna-Schlobitten's classic Erinnerungen eines alten Ostpreussen (Memoirs of an Old East Prussian). The Nazis' Last Stand
There are memoirs by battered wives, but not batterers.
This gimlet-eyed memoir is Joan Didion's meticulous chronicle of the harrowing year following the death of her husband of 40 years, the writer John Gregory Dunne, who died of a heart attack at their dinner table. Deathless Accounts Of Mourning
Memoirs are often criticized for being excessively exhibitionist and insufficiently insightful. The Times Literary Supplement
The other one is a picaresque fantastical-historical novel that takes the form of a fake memoir written by a famous 18th-century hoaxer named George Psalmanazar, in which he gives the real story behind his real-life memoir in which he said he was giving the real story. INTERVIEW: Alex Irvine
[A] wry new memoir … [Kamen] intertwines her journey (which, mercifully, is often comical) with the latest medical research. All In My Head: Summary and book reviews of All In My Head by Paula Kamen.
This book, much like his previous two memoirs, is lush with narratives about manhood, fathers and sons, families and the changing face of the rural South. The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg: Book summary
Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. Brother, I'm Dying: Summary and book reviews of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
It is possible that this reflects the fact that the tradition was primarily an oral one, the key points argued by important figures merely being recorded in the form of an aide-memoire.
At any rate, she has (very gutsily) elected to retrain as a journalist, and (still more gutsily) chosen to write a memoir of her playing days as her first book.
He has laid out his life's story in two memoirs, delving into everything from his complex relationships with his parents to his youthful experimentation with drugs.
Toward the end of this well-written and perhaps unintentionally self-revealing memoir, Tony Blair, who was Britain's prime minister during an eventful decade from 1997 to 2007, insists he is "trying valiantly not to fall into self-justifying mode -- a bane of political memoirs. Tony Blair's fierce defense of his political life
This happens with many races, like Al Pacino playing a Cuban in Scarface, or all the Chinese actors playing Japanese in Memoirs of a Geisha. Final Poster for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time | /Film
In a copy of the works of Petrarch in Latin, folio, 1501, occurs on the title: "Liber Antonij kressen juris vtriusq. doctoris emptus venecijs ligatus nurenberge Mcccccv;" and the noble old volume (now in the British Museum) is accompanied by a memoir of Kressen, printed about 1600, of uniform size, with a splendid portrait of the interesting Nüremberger. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Memoirs are often criticized for being excessively exhibitionist and insufficiently insightful. The Times Literary Supplement
It was common for painters at that time to make use of photographs as aide-memoire to capture specific gestures, postures, and facial expressions.
Unlike other scholars, he has chosen to give equal weight to works of fiction as well as diaries, memoirs and autobiographies.
His own books and memoirs are a farrago of half-truth and out-right invention.
The definitive account of the evening was written by gonzo journalist Mike Shropshire in the hilarious memoir of his stint covering the Rangers in the mid-Seventies, Seasons in Hell.
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres's website: "Ainsi, peut-on considérer à juste titre l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres tout à la fois comme un 'conservatoire' (c'est-à-dire un lieu où l'on 'sauve' et où l'on maintient vivante la mémoire humaine) mais aussi un 'laboratoire' Blogbot - forsiden
Memoirs are meant to set the record straight. Times, Sunday Times
He went on to relate how only four months later, in August 1958, the Netherlands sent an aide memoire to the British proposing that the division of the territorial seas and continental shelf should be defined in accordance with this principle of equidistance.
When he got home that night, just over one month since he had arrived in Greenwich, he began to write an aide-mémoire. COFFIN ON THE WATER
He wrote memoirs but, like a jazzman improvising on a theme, wandered off inveterately after other people: "An accidental shove on a crowded Loop corner, while awaiting the change in traffic lights;
He used his memoirs, public speeches, and letters to glorify Lee, southern soldiers, and the Confederate cause.
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington is no kiss-and-tell memoir, though it does have a few moments of humor and genuine tension.
A painful memory, injected with some still-rueful mirth recently, as I reread the Larry's memoir and beheld the dues he had paid and the jangled trip he had taken to find a suitably meaningful professional niche. David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates
This memoir is as much about those miraculous rebirths as it is about what is lost.
Dancing away an anxious mind: a memoir about overcoming panic disorder.
The central pleasure of a truly satisfying memoir is the narrator's ability to reflect, artfully and persuasively.
Cette préparation consiste, ou à broyer la couleur avec la cire sur la pierre chaude, & de faire fondre ces cires colorées dans le vernis propre à la couleur que l'on prépare, ou à fondre la cire dans les vernis, & y ajouter la couleur. comte de Caylus, Mémoire sur la peinture à l'encaustique (Geneve, 1755), 113 – 114. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
She published modern German translations of Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", "The Memoirs of Gluekl von Hameln", the Maaseh Buch (a collection of traditional Jewish narratives), the Ze'enah u-Re'enah (a 16th century women's bible), as well as the Five Megillot and the Haftarot. Personal Information for Bertha Pappenheim
His book is part memoir, part meditation on the processes of reading and writing, and is thoroughly engaging.
That is certainly the impression one receives from the memoir of Gustave Folcher.
Elaw's Memoirs testify vividly to her dauntless independence, her boldly visionary sense of mission, and her radical spiritual individualism.
Kennan wrote a memoir that had enough literary merit to be turned into a play.
Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir.
Davidson's book also sent me to my battered copy of David Arora's Mushrooms Demystified -- the one book you must have if you want to hunt mushrooms-- for this anecdote by the Victorian memoirist Gwen Raverat about the smelly, phallic, stinkhorn mushroom. "Because of the morals of the maids"...
Da Chen is author of Sounds of the River (memoir). Brothers by Da Chen: Book summary
He has written four books of memoirs and many volumes of poetry, fiction and criticism. Times, Sunday Times
I've found myself using my camera phone while others have been cooking, to capture aide-memoire material around a recipe.
Next, there will be a tell-all memoir. Times, Sunday Times
“A girl leading an immoral life was once sent to me for possible help,” Wald remembered in her memoir. A Renegade History of the United States
The proscript has plenty of leisure to write his proclamations and even his memoirs, and I believe he has organs in which they are published; but the only noise he makes in the world is the harmless splash of his oars. Italian Hours
His memoir of growing up among the Urkas is a mischievous, almost mythological, tale of robberies carried out with honor, of revenge exacted with judiciousness. Here Come the Cops—Steppe on It
Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony.
In this memoir she comes across as intelligent, generous, almost saintly. Times, Sunday Times
Her explicit accounts of her sexual journey developed into this fictionalised memoir.
The creation of such a universal confection for the eye, by means of printed poetry or fiction or history or essays or memoirs and so on, isn't possible.
As the book closes, it becomes transformed into a moving, elegiac memoir for the writer's parents.
As this gentleman _had been_ a contagionist, occupied a very responsible situation during the Moscow epidemic, and quotes time and place in support of his assertions, I consider his memoir more worthy of translation than fifty of your Keraudrens. Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
Wilkomirski called his book, Fragments, a novelized memoir.
He described how one writer used tarot cards to sequence her memoir about her friendships.
Charles A. Ruud and Sergei A. Stepanov have mined a rich collection of memoirs and archival materials to explore the psychology and workings of the secret police.
I was also influenced by major memoirs of my "formative" years that helped to destigmatize depression, such as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted and Elizabeth Wurztel's Prozac Nation. A Talk with Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head
Next I'm going to write "Going Rouge," a memoir about me as a Sarah Palin impersonator. Topics That Are Not, In Fact, of Inherent Interest, and Do Require Some Effort On Your Part in Order to Constitute a Successful Book
Russian writer Mikhail Kheifets, who was imprisoned with Stus and later published memoirs about him, wrote about the poet's natural aristocratism. News on www.kyivpost.com
This definition includes periodicals, newspapers, annuals (reports, yearbooks, directories, etc.), journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions of societies, monographic series, and unnumbered series.
Yet they were also the subject of tracts, sermons, poems, memoirs, illustrations, and not a few Tin Pan Alley tearjerkers.
(_e_) Finally, there are occasional lists, such as Neh.xii. 1-26_a_, or Neh.vii. 6-69, a list of the returning exiles, incorporated in the memoirs of Nehemiah from some earlier list and borrowed in Ezra ii. Introduction to the Old Testament
Perhaps because Grant too was destroyed by the dualities of life: the total, granitelike integrity of the Memoirs, written as the author died of throat cancer, as against the slack and hopeless presidency. Mark Twain, or the Ambiguities
A number of memoirs published over the last 20 years have shifted their focus from the victim/perpetrator relationship to the survivor/rescuer relationship.
In 1803 she completed her translation of Job, and was encouraged to translate the Klopstock memoirs for publication.
The Memoirs of the Medical Society of London* (* 1779 Volume 4 page 330.) contain a paper read before that body on October 30th, 1797: “Case of a child born with variolar pustules, by Matthew Flinders, surgeon, Donington, Lincolnshire.” The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
Jeremy Lewis, who has worked extensively in publishing and has chronicled the memoirs of other significant publishers, becomes the ideal biographer to evoke the life of a publisher.
Ireland, in short, has no monopoly on the use of memoir, fiction, biography or autobiography as a political tool.
After full discussion, Aide Memoire of Hefei Urban Environment Improvement Project has finished.
Yet escape she did in 1787, the year following that of her imprisonment at the Salpétrière; she reached England, compiled the libels which she called her memoirs, and died strangely in 1791. Historical Mysteries
Both memoirs aimed for a 'feel-good' reaction rather than belabouring the comedians' poor and unprivileged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, this is a charming memoir of a Caribbean childhood, a celebration of the good things in life, and a gentle dig at a set of values that are long gone and unlamented.
Nokia 6280 : j'arrive à voir la carte mémoire et les fichiers qui sont dedans, mais pas à échanger des données, ni dans un sens ni dans l'autre quand je suis connecté en mode stockage de données sur Mac OS 10.4.8 Nokia 6280 compatible Mac :-) — Climb to the Stars
The painter is a seriously anecdotal man, a raconteur par excellence who needs no aide-memoires, at age 77.
This trend can be seen in letters, memoirs, diaries, regimental histories, anecdotes, reminiscences, and interviews by combat veterans during and after the war.
The idea for the panel, said co-owner Margie Scott Tucker, came from a statement made by Alan Kaufman, novelist, memoirist, influential in the Spoken Word movement and editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature: "When I hear the term Kindle, I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit. Hot air didn't stop the Nazis, either.
So it is biography v memoir. Times, Sunday Times
After full discussion, interim Draft Aide Memoire of Hefei Urban Environment Improvement Project TA Review Mission has finished. The meeting had prospective purpose.
Now she's written a soul-baring memoir. Times, Sunday Times
"I do think that there are intimacy and privacy issues with any memoir or personal essay or blog post, and I know that people can accuse me of oversharing," she admits.
Fortunately, the balance was only slightly readjusted this summer with the publication of Ms Satrapi's critically acclaimed memoir of her childhood in Iran.
The pleasures in this section of the book are few, and the author herself comes close to sounding self-absorbed, inward-looking and resentful rather than being the outward-looking observer that so charms in the rest of the memoir. A Longing to Feed Her Neighbors
In recent years there has been a growing number of politicians and intellectuals who write memoirs or reflections on Djibouti society and its problems, but virtually all of them publish in France.
Despite their variety, some of the better memoirs come from the perspective of the common soldier.
A discussion about the merits of Bob Dylan's new memoir, for instance, quickly degenerated into a patchouli-scented haze of dewy-eyed 1960s nostalgia and hippie-dippy pretentiousness.
And the list of generic influences - the apologia, the memoir, the road story, the nouveau roman - extends on and on.
That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week.
The survivors 'personal testimonies, including my mother's words on the Movietone newsreel and her posthumously published memoirs, are their lasting legacy. Menachem Rosensaft: A Transfer of Memory
The book is not so much a formal ‘autobiography’ as a free-floating memoir.
It is a super-sophisticated parody of the publisher's-memoir genre.
Krogh recalled, in his memoir of the Watergate era, that Mr. Shulman had occasionally used one-arm push-up competitions to bring levity to difficult moments. Stephen N. Shulman, lawyer who defended Watergate figure, dies at 77
The translation of both the biography and the memoirs is clear but includes some oddities. The Times Literary Supplement
In an era when memoirs are often characterized by salacious confessions, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin restores a refreshing element of innocence to the genre in Wait Till Next Year…. Wait Till Next Year
If you're writing nonfiction or memoir or something where craft is second to the information or story being conveyed then by all means have the actual *writing* part tightened up by a professional. Warning: Objects in Mirror May Be Less Self-Editing Than They Appear
If an autobiography is the true and full story of one's life -- the entire trip so to speak -- a memoir examines recurring scenes along the way. Will Weaver: Making Sense of the Memoir
Were he to offer this defence in his memoirs, he might repel the attack that he was weak. Times, Sunday Times
The memoirs note the nightly patrols by proctors searching for students, an offence liable to bring hefty fines and other impositions.
In her memoirs Naomi is quick to acknowledge that her grandmother was centrally important in her venture as a writer.
The idea is to provide an aide-memoire to that eternal question: ‘Did I take my pill today?’
Six volumes of memoir sit on my desk, of which two are outstanding, and all compulsively readable. Times, Sunday Times
-- [MS.] [236] {504} [Brantôme (_Memoires, etc. _, 1722, i. 215) quotes a "chanson" of "Les soldats Espagnols" as they marched Romewards. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
Mr. Cosell shot back in his memoir, He ' d try to compensate for his lack of knowledgeability by singing a song or talking to his imaginary alter ego, Harley Smydlapp, and everybody would write about how funny and irrepressible he was. From Star on Football Field to Cut-Up in Broadcast Booth
Later, a publisher wanted to "repackage" the book as a memoir. Experimental Fiction
Rebecca Nicholson"Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time … " Carrie Fisher's one-woman HBO show, based on her recent memoir of the same name, is studded with hardened, diamond-sharp observations like this. Tonight's TV highlights: Secrets Of The Arabian Nights | House | Wishful Drinking | The Animal's Guide To Britain | A History Of Celtic Britain | Long Lost Family
Last year Hitchens told an English interviewer that he is ready to remember even more disobliging material from that lunch, in the event that Blumenthal takes after him in the upcoming memoir.
The publication of her memoirs is scheduled for the autumn.
The relevant quotation appeared on the dustjacket of Hitch-22, Hitchens's memoir published in 2010, but was overlain by a red cross with "no, CH" inscribed beside it. Christopher Hitchens obituary
Also, this heading will comprise that great series of mysterious and 'racy' books ycleped 'Court Memoirs,' and the somewhat less exciting but -- to our book-hunter's mind at least -- more interesting works which border on the domain of history, such as the The Book-Hunter at Home
There should be a brilliant preface, introducing the seven sages to each other and the reader, after the ensample of Plutarch, and exhausting all the antiquarianism, all the memoirism, and all the varia-lectionism of the subject. An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
Mr. Carlyle said it was his habit to drink five cups of tea. He ran off into table-talk about tea and coffee, told us that he had found in Lord Russell's 'Memoirs of Moore,' which he called a rubbishy book, the origin of the word biggin; it comes from one Biggin, a tinner, who first made the vessel and was knighted afterwards. Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
But it isn't a hymn sheet he's handing round, it's what he calls notre petite aide-memoire a one-page conversion table setting out, for the comfort and convenience of our readers, what is understood in the real world by such lighthearted expressions as shovel, trowel, pickaxe, heavy and light wheelbarrows and the like. The mission song
I've visited the U.K. more than a few times, and read many British novels, memoirs, biographies, histories and news articles.
For this purpose let me hand out an aide-memoire as to the decision-making task ahead of you.
The idea for the panel, said co-owner Margie Scott Tucker, came from a statement made by Alan Kaufman, novelist, memoirist, influential in the Spoken Word movement and editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature: "When I hear the term Kindle, I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit. Archive 2009-10-01
One of the revelations in Threepenny Memoir was how crippling Barât's stage fright is – a surprise when the Libertines are routinely voted as one of the best live bands. Carl Barât: The interview
As a rule, memoirs written by political figures do not remain memorable since the details supplied in them must have been widely publicised by the media long before they got into the book.
When she was still drinking heavily, it was an editor's somewhat unclassy suggestion that she write a misery memoir about alcoholism that sent her on her final, massive bender. What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam
The first memoir deals with the homologies of the opercular bones. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The biography also includes the memoirs of people she taught dance to in the 1960s, but does not mention anything about the circumstances of her death.
And you meant to write, ... you _meant_! and went to walk in 'Poet's lane' instead, (in the 'Aonius of Highgate') which I remember to have read of -- does not Hunt speak of it in his Memoirs? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
But then, according to his soon-to-be-ex-wife's memoirs, he called his estranged wife and asked about his news-conference performance, "How did I do? 'Loopy' takes Japan by storm
This dependence is probably due to the redactor, who in this place gave a new form to the notes supplied him by the Jewish governor's memoirs which also explains the latter's being spoken of in the third person, Neh., viii, 9. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
This journey is leading into the emotional interzone of middle-age, contained in the elegiac final section of his memoir. Times, Sunday Times
He was superb at the job -- and his counsel was valued, too -- but (as he recognizes in his memoirs) he was a bureaucrat, not a warrior: a manager, not a conceptualizer. The Very Model Of A Political General
I have to admit that when I first eyed the title of Walker's memoir a measurable amount of suspicion lurked in my heart.
After all, MacGowan's memoir confirms that, far from a gormless thug, this guy is witty, intelligent… perhaps even a genius.
Some of the most celebrated figures of this period were born out of wedlock and into poverty, including Henry Stanley and Catherine Cookson, but several less famous illegitimates have also left thoughtful memoirs.
The memoirs describing late nineteenth-century childhood are replete with images of cold, distant parents.
His memoirs are simply a blow-by-blow account of battles, and contain very little personal comment or reflection.
There is a chance of course that he'll do the decent thing and keep shtum until the Memoirs are published.
I'm afraid that too many reviewers are disappointed when a memoir is not a dishy tell-all, serving up personal, intimate details.
Not just drama, the story also inspires poetry, memoirs, reportage and other literary forms.

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