How To Use Whitman In A Sentence

  • And what's so impressive is that Parini manages to create Melville's homoerotic yearning and despair in the context of 19th-century attitudes about sexuality, a pre-Freudian age that had not neatly divided the world into gay and straight, but also had no words for the feelings of love between men that Walt Whitman was so bravely yawping about. Melville's stormy seas
  • The deep breaths exhaled by his broad lines, his declarative sentences and their assertive plangency, his deliberate tactlessness and brave humor, redirect the reader to a history of poetic Yanks: Whitman, Williams.
  • Also like The Hours, which reworked Virginia Woolf, this narrative triplex is built on a bookish foundation: the poetry and ontology of Walt Whitman. New Fiction
  • Whitman prepares next enter into an election contest with republic partisans identity California bey.
  • Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
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  • Clifton's palimpsestic rewriting of Whitman in which relationships, not the individual, have primacy, is finally able to bring this family identity into American literature.
  • No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
  • I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. Walt Whitman 
  • Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony. The River and I
  • Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. Walt Whitman 
  • Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. Walt Whitman 
  • Years later Whitman dismissed Harlan gently: ‘He was only a fool: there was only a dim light in his noddle.’
  • Whitman has produced music that (particularly as a collection) neither fetishizes the scholarly pallor of early electronic music nor attempts to radically recast the tools or to play clever games with them.
  • The chthonic Dick Whitman still lurks in the shadows, threatening to resurface when others discover the secret box of relics. Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 6 -- Dissolving Identity and the Female Gaze
  • The exclusive force is represented by caste and class, by gentility and donnishness, by sectarianism and nationalism, and even by patriotism ” and the inclusive force is represented by Walt Whitmanism and Christianity.” Father Payne
  • Whitman told reporters after the debate the controversy is a sideshow from the issues Californians want to focus on, such as jobs and education. Whitman, Brown Spar Over Maid Scandal In Heated Debate
  • I can imagine Whitman at the end of his life posting furiously, orgiastically. Adam Hanft: Do We Need Another Place to Kvetch? More Than You Realize
  • Alexander Gilchrist's wife, Anne, is a particularly interesting point of contact between Blake and Whitman: she finished Life of William Blake, "Pictor ignotus Notes on ''Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman'
  • He has lately allowed in a published letter that he used a poem by Mrs. Whitman in "concocting" one of his own. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
  • A Whitmanesque catalogue filled with futurist horrors, this powerful prose poem visualizes the aboveground as a world where technology and rationality have become tools of violence and destruction on a world scale.
  • The same debate is taking place in the governor's race, where the former eBay chief executive, Republican Meg Whitman, faces Democrat, and former governor, Jerry Brown.
  • As one of the greatest poets and writers of America in the twentieth century, Carl Sandburg is the only one after Walt Whitman who can be said to be "people's poet".
  • Professor Whitman: By Zeus, what sort of jackassery is this? 'Community' recap: And it was good. | EW.com
  • My daughter is a junior at Walt Whitman High School, an upscale public school in Bethesda, Maryland.
  • If Mr. Spender gives Whitman a book called Cadmus the scholar will easily identify it as Calamus. Taking Sides
  • In the late 1860s Whitman received overdue recognition in America as the early reactions to his radical style began to fade.
  • Selections from Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and other poets whom Kennedy admired will be featured at the event at Saint Peter's Church in midtown Manhattan on Feb. 22. Reader - MassLive.com
  • Soon after, the strange day took another strange turn, when Whitman strategists again summoned reporters, this time onto a conference call in which they tried to explain away Allred's evidence. eMeg handler Rob Stutzman, who would neither confirm nor deny the handwriting was Dr. Harsh's, said: What we have here is a letter that is seven years old. Phil Trounstine: Character in the CA Gov Race: eMeg, Nicky and the Smoking Letter
  • Listening to the scratchy recording, I recognized Walt Whitman immediately.
  • Walt Whitman elegized Lincoln as 'the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands.' The Central Man
  • Listening to the scratchy recording, I recognized Walt Whitman immediately.
  • It surveys how same-sex love has been portrayed in art, from Walt Whitman's hints to open declarations in the era of AIDS and Robert Mapplethorpe's bullwhips. National Portrait Gallery's 'Hide/Seek' finds a frame for sexual identity
  • Today we tell about the well - known American poet, Walt Whitman.
  • As Walt Whitman says, I am sufficient as I am.
  • It did not share the metrical perfection of a Longfellow or the tiresome "priapism" (Emerson's word, which Higginson liked to repeat) of Walt Whitman. 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson'
  • Everywhere in nature Whitman finds human relations, human responsions. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • He said talks with eBay had "cratered" before he and Mr. Buckmaster were called to a meeting with Ms. Whitman in July 2004. DealBook
  • Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and such men could not be artists in the fiction sense -- that their efforts were pathetic, when they tried to enflesh their literary efforts in story form. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
  • But with its insatiable urge to itemise components of the national culture, The Ask is also the latest instalment in a tradition of urban literary surveys that reaches back to Whitman. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
  • Whitman loved adhesiveness so because it is a friendly profusion.
  • For many, his "touch," like Walt Whitman's "yawp," still exemplifies an authentic American spirit. Height and Depths of Expression
  • As the poet Walt Whitman once wrote, ‘A democracy may rule as outrageously as a despotism.’
  • Whitman felt that what biology needed was a clear statement of the alternative views, and then movement to a new standpoint examining how much depends on the organism's developmental response to external conditions drawing on preformation, rather than on programmed internal unfolding alone. Epigenesis and Preformationism
  • This, we feel with Whitman, " is the meal equally set, the meal for natural hunger ".
  • Somewhere in the middle of this sequence I realised that this may be the only American movie since 2001 brave or foolhardy enough to take on – to conflate, even – the infinite and the intimate, the cosmic and the cellular, the extraordinary and the infra-ordinary, all in Malick's habitual spirit of big-hearted, symphonic grandeur, steeped in Whitman, Emerson and Yeats. Is Terrence Malick assuming Stanley Kubrick's mantle?
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  • Walt Whitman was born in 1819 when the United States was about thirty years old.
  • Ready your TV and your stomach for an hour of smears, self-aggrandizement and, with any luck, an airing of the issues facing California: Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown meet tonight in Davis for the first of three televised debates. Stakes Are High For Brown And Whitman In First Debate
  • So I emailed Post reporterKirk Mitchell, who wrote the Whitman article,and told him thatwhen apublic official attacks the media, I think reporters shouldtreat the accusation as they would in any other news story, and present readers with a response from the entity that's attacked. Jason Salzman: Denver News Outlets Lie There as Gardner, Gessler, And Whitman Abuse them
  • He thought of Walt Whitman, of course, but he found this power in short supply in American art; he found its history largely unwritten.
  • Whitman is a small private college in Walla Walla , Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Whitman enraged conservatives by opposing a ban on late-term abortions sent to her by the state legislature.
  • Whitman might have added that nothing so intangible and difficult may be adequately taught at any rate, and that poetry is therefore in no danger of being taught to death.
  • We know he was interested in American literature, for he wrote an essay each on Whitman and Thoreau.
  • At last inquisitive Whitman a modern epic, detonative Allen Ginsberg
  • Not every troubled-company workout generates for Third Avenue investors the kind of outsized profits that came from Whitman's decision to invest in bonds issued by a then-bankrupt Kmart. Swimming Happily Against the Tide -- Third Avenue's Marty Whitman Finds Lots to Buy
  • History paints a vivid picture of disparity and dissimilarity between Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.
  • Just as later he would return to listing woodpeckers, hawks and wild flowers in Carolina, he is obsessed by Whitman-like lists of fauna: lookdowns, triggerfish, halfbeaks, hairtails, blackbacks, mossbunkers and quahogs.
  • Soon after, the strange day took another strange turn, when Whitman strategists again summoned reporters, this time onto a conference call in which they tried to explain away Allred's evidence. eMeg handler Rob Stutzman, who would neither confirm nor deny the handwriting was Dr. Harsh's said: Phil Trounstine: Character in the CA Gov Race: eMeg, Nicky & the Smoking Letter
  • Brown, who earned his nickname during his first turn as governor after advocating hi-tech ideas that are now commonplace, defeated the high-spending Republican candidate Meg Whitman. California election result: Jerry Brown triumphs over Meg Whitman's millions
  • Two weeks ago, the EPA had to omit the entire global-warming section from its "Draft Report on the Environment," a 30-year statistical snapshot of the U.S. environment, after the administration tried to replace solid findings with "pabulum," according to outgoing EPA administrator Christie Whitman. Eschaton
  • Probably indebted in its basic structure - its long, irregular, unrhymed lines and its dignified but casual language - to the example of Walt Whitman, the poem sounded a note previously unheard in African American poetry.
  • Walt Whitman made extravagant claims to immortality.
  • Long before lapsing into Nazi metaphor, Brown scared off all the serious Democratic opposition and waltzed through his primary, setting up a November showdown with Whitman, the bazillionaire and former eBay chief executive. At 72, California gubernatorial candidate is the same old Jerry Brown
  • But Brian Whitman, the Pentagon spokesman, says the Defense Department did not release the photos officially.
  • Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman 
  • In "The Jumping-off Place," about San Diego as the nation's suicide capital, epitome of native anguish and exhaustion, he concludes with a black parody of the all-American Whitmaniacal catalogue: they stuff up the cracks of their doors and quietly turn on the gas; they go into their back sheds or back kitchens and eat ant-paste or swallow Lysol; they drive their cars into dark alleys, get into the back seat and shoot themselves; they hang themselves in hotel bedrooms, take overdoses of sulphonal or barbital; they slip off to the municipal golf-links and there stab themselves with carving-knives; or they throw themselves into the bay, blue and placid, where gray battleships and cruisers guard the limits of their broad-belting nation-already reaching out in the eighties for the sugar plantations of Honolulu. Claremont.org
  • But the merely decorative celebrity cameos — bluff, bearded Walt Whitman, with an "epicene" male friend, and Charles Darwin, who loudly and repeatedly breaks wind — make clear that "Heyday" is infotainment for readers Andersen must consider clueless. He'll Take Manhattan
  • Browning claims eternity as the due of every man, however mean; and if Whitman feels his foothold 'tenon'd and mortised in granite', it is because he can 'laugh at dissolution' and knows 'the amplitude of time'. Recent Developments in European Thought
  • She interrelates a move cross-country, the renewal and communal spirit of Yom Kippur, and the daily injustices she reads in the paper into a textured collage reminiscent of Walt Whitman. Poetry in the United States.
  • Later on, a band of Cayuses attacked the mission and killed the Whitmans and 12 other people.
  • Wednesday, Ms. Whitman said she never received any notification from the government that would have alerted her to the woman's status. Whitman Rejects Claims by Ex-Housekeeper
  • Volunteers for Republican Meg Whitman's campaign for California governor are calling voters in Farsi, Korean and two Chinese dialects. Whitman Banks on Big Ground Game
  • (Even Jerry Brown won't call a spade a spade, referring instead to Meg Whitman's "intentional, terminological inexactitude.") Phil Trounstine: The Death of Truth: eMeg and the Politics of Lying
  • Whitman hoped that the tedium and pettiness of his senior years would not infect his poetry.
  • Think, for example, of Whitman's insistence on celebrating every jot and tittle of the created world.
  • It is the unspeakableness of things that Whitman most commonly dramatizes.
  • The largest phenacite crystal ever found is owned by Mr. Whitman Cross. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887
  • Most recently he agreed to contribute to a book I'm editing on Walt Whitman, though he apologized that his deteriorating health would prevent his penning a new essay -- drats, I thought, because Jean Bethke Elshtain is also a contributor to the new volume, and it would have been nice to reenact their earlier dispute, albeit now on Whitmanesque territory. John Seery: Richard Rorty: Ironically Upbeat in Dark Times
  • Whitman says the illegal maid flap is just a desperate last minute political stunt by her opponent Jerry Brown and attorney Gloria Allred, who is a well known Democratic supporter. Whitman Denies Knowing Maid Was In U.S. Illegally
  • Whitman makes this function of the poem explicit in section 23.
  • In contrast to Meg Whitman, whose Friday night speech to delegates may be found in the dictionary under "somnolent," Fiorina's talk was energetic, punchy and well-crafted. FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
  • You cannot compare the wiring of Michael Jordan's brain (a kinesthetic intelligence) to that of a Frank Lloyd Wright (spatial) or a Walt Whitman (linguistic).
  • The use of these lists has reminded many of readers of the poet Walt Whitman.
  • He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
  • The appendix to the Complete Poems prints the two pieces of juvenilia that were published in Bunting's youth, both remarkably conventional given that Bunting knew and already admired Whitman.
  • Though a long poem, the book is interlarded with mixed genre elements, including a few treatises one on dung, another on literary narcissism and several essays, including little disquisitions on vipassana meditation, Whitman, C. S. Peirce, and Nancy Reagan. The Best American Poetry 2010
  • The only nod to the bibulous was the Toll House Cocktail, a house-special from the same (now long-gone) Whitman, Mass., inn famous for its chocolate-chip cookies. Cranberry Cocktail Confusion
  • Keating is even the kind of educator who can coax from a shy, stuttering student (Ethan Hawke) Walt Whitman's famed "barbaric yawp. Caroline Hagood: The 'Dead Poets Society' Guide to Teaching
  • She corresponded passionately with Whitman (who occasionally replied), wrote appreciations of his work, and visited him in America in 1876-9.
  • Ms. Whitman said Mr. Holston has been a "great contributor to the company's mission. H-P General Counsel Holston Departs
  • Whitman re - published it every few years for the rest of his life.
  • In exploring the relationship between Emerson, Whitman, and Li-Young Lee, Partridge asserts that Lee as an artist is nourished by the stylistics of Emerson's and Whitman's transcendentalism.
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  • Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements.
  • Emily Dickinson ( 1830 - 1886 ) was as famous a poet as Walt Whitman , who lived in the nineteenth century.
  • Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors.
  • After Whitman obtained her excuse from having to serve as a juror, fortunately -- for the people of the state who want to see state laws protecting children from child molesters enforced in courtrooms that require jurors for their function -- there were still some "little people" left in the venire from which a jury could be empanelled. David Coleman: Is Meg Whitman California's Version of Leona Helmsley?
  • Whitman engaged in what even he termed 'slimeball' activity and together with Khan brought new illicit meaning to the maxim 'help thy neighbor,'" said George S. Canellos , director of the SEC's New York Regional Office. Insider Charges for Fund Manager
  • And Waldie’s has been a very special career; he is the Walt Whitman and the Edmund Wilson of the American subdevelopment. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
  • Several wise minds weighed in with their own interpretations of nowness and nature, and, to heighten the moment, the instructor read aloud from the preface to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
  • The director, Whitman, was an experimental geneticist and spent years in the study of hybrid doves and pigeons.
  • A major influence in his lyrical visions is the writer Walt Whitman as signposted by the song ‘Leaves of Grass’.
  • Remember, too, that Whitman declaredly writes the lyrics of America, of the masses, of democracy, and of the practical labor of mechanics, boatmen, and farmers: -- Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
  • As the allegations have suddenly consumed the gubernatorial race, Ms. Whitman again blamed her Democratic opponent, California Attorney General Jerry Brown, for the revelations about Ms. Diaz Santillan. Whitman Accuser Stokes Dispute
  • His fresh blend of Japanese and Western influences is exemplified by his showy woodcut renditions of passages from Walt Whitman's ‘Leaves of Grass’.
  • Whitman says his department takes any allegation of abuse seriously.
  • Do anything, but let it produce joy. Walt Whitman 
  • All his life Whitman believed in the science of phrenology-you know, reading the bumps on the skull.
  • I see great things in baseball. Walt Whitman 
  • Walt Whitman, for example, created a fantastic self-image which appealed to those seeking an earthy, robust American literary voice.
  • Incidentally, even if Whitman's nanny agency handled the I-9, that doesn't let her off the hook for violations in completing the form. Phil Trounstine: Why Didn't eMeg Sign Nicky's Work Documents?
  • Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. Walt Whitman 
  • In accordance with Ludlow's idea that mutual drug use fosters a common understanding between the users, Whitman's poetic speaker leaves off singing about the effects of calamus and instead distributes the root to his friends.
  • Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. Walt Whitman 
  • Actually, it's worse than that because the Japanese transvestite is now leading Whitman by seven points in the polls. Lightning Fill In The Blank
  • Whitman for Governor began with great promise, but it ended with a GOP official glumly declaring, "The Republican brand in this state is death. Report: Whitman Lost, But Payday Was Sweet For Many
  • Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman 
  • This, we feel with Whitman, " is the meal equally set, the meal for natural hunger ".
  • Simplicity is the glory of expression. Walt Whitman 
  • Indeed, by 1837, Marcus Whitman noted that the younger Cayuses spoke only Nez Percé and could no longer understand their native language.
  • The future is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman 
  • Much of the event consisted of thrusts and parries, with front-runner Whitman defending herself against Poizner's attacks and launching several of her own as the pair addressed topics including immigration, the environment and California's public pension system. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, May 3, 2010
  • Poizner is using illegal immigration, what I call the alienation factor in the GOP race, to continue pressing his new advantage against Whitman. William Bradley: Meg Whitman's Wild Week That Was
  • Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman 
  • Just as later he would return to listing woodpeckers, hawks and wild flowers in Carolina, he is obsessed by Whitman-like lists of fauna: lookdowns, triggerfish, halfbeaks, hairtails, blackbacks, mossbunkers and quahogs.
  • This fascinating anthology of documents—letters, diary entries, speeches, poems, political manifestoes—by both famous Americans including Lincoln, Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee and forgotten ones moves chronologically through 1861, providing many firsthand accounts of that fateful, chaotic year. Twelve Months of Reading
  • Falling in the ‘not-at-all-surprising’ category is the news that Mae Whitman’s deaf sister has been jettisoned from the BIONIC WOMAN pilot. Musical Casting Couch | the TV addict
  • At the Pentagon, spokesman Bryan Whitman says Defense Department inquiries offer a different conclusion.
  • None of them looks steadfastly at what the poem calls, quoting Whitman, "the procreative urge."
  • During the campaign it was revealed that Whitman herself had not voted for 28 years, a record she described as "atrocious" and had ruthlessly dumped her longtime housekeeper when it emerged she was an illegal alien - and consequently a political liability. Will Meg Whitman stay the course as HP CEO?
  • Edgar Allan Poe called the daguerreotypes miraculous beauties and photogenic drawings of absolute truth, and a few years later, Walt Whitman, then-editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said the new art form possessed great magnetism and captured the soul of the human face. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
  • She benefited from $8 million in support from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and avoided the major gaffes and scandals that hurt Ms. Whitman. With Democrats Ascendant, California Votes Contrarian
  • So, over and over, when we looked - when I looked up words in the dictionary, see where Whitman was in 1855, there was always some surprising interesting accuracy or some area like the word afflatus or flatus. Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'
  • He is now in his 80s and, following a number of health scares and other late-life catastrophes, finds himself in melancholic mood, planning a capacious, personal and baroquely styled critical study of some of his own abiding influences: Shakespeare, Yeats, Whitman, Emerson and Hart Crane among them. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
  • We can perhaps see these two, in another life, as the unfailingly organized schoolmarm (Whitman) and the rebel rousing student (Brown). Jessica Levinson: Brown and Whitman Face-Off: Many Differences, Few Surprises
  • Hopkins and Whitman appropriately shared a metric that suited their commitment to the natural.
  • If I sometimes seem grouchy or disoriented, remember that like Walt Whitman I contain multitudes.
  • He said talks with eBay had "cratered" before he and Buckmaster were called to a meeting with Whitman in July 2004. Technology Technology
  • Whitman emerged a mature poet, ready to weld together the nation that had survived.
  • Walt Whitman dreams of the first jumpshot he will take, the ball arcing clumsily from his fingers, striking the rim so hard that it sparks.
  • Emily Dickinson, a famous 19th century American poetess, enjoys equal popularity with Whitman and is conferred the pioneer of the 20th century English and American Imagist movement.

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