How To Use Wolfe In A Sentence

  • Asked about parents who choose not to vaccinate their children against HPV, the virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of the new book "The Viral Storm," told me: "Basically the decision to not vaccinate risks not only cancer for their kids but cancer for anyone their kids have sex with. The New Prudery
  • He wolfed down his breakfast and went to school.
  • They are also a classic comic pair in a production that's chockablock with vivid characters: Elizabeth Reaser as Buddy's wife, Beth; Collette Wolfe as Matt's wife, Sandra; Louisa Krause as a droll motel desk clerk. Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
  • The cab stopped with a jerk that justified Wolfe’s attitude toward machinery, and the hackie stuck his head out and objected. The Black Mountain
  • The Pro Football Hall of Fame member, now 73 years old, recalls the spartan Marion County coal camp of his youth, where his teachers Mrs. Hornyak and Mr. Wolfe made lasting impressions. 59 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
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  • The investigators still cite the "cancer of corruption" denounced by James Wolfensohn, an ex-president of the World Bank, in 1996.
  • Paula Wolfert was the last to speak and her slides were of various clay pots and dishes.
  • TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!! fastlane: Dr Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran dafuck: the only explenation could be a time warp in the middle of detroit .. bobacus: According to Curve magazine, Lesbian visitors will find a Detroit that's shifted into the 21st century. wolfer: only his body, his soul lives on, I heard it coming from a Escalade in the wal-mart parking lot last night dafuck: Micheal Jackson is dead? wotak: for best results, remove your nose to get the correct weight distribution wolfer: Im gonna practice and bring back the moon walk LinkSwarm.com
  • Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe 
  • The characteristic Paula Wolfert fiddliness was exactly what I was looking for-I wanted to fuss a bit over my one-time truffle, yet not to drown it in extras; after all, I was wondering what it tasted like. Toast:
  • The series is introduced through a feature-length episode that pits Wolfe and Archie against the FBI.
  • If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not think you have to go to Paris and wait for inspiration to strike. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Prior to venturing into the financial world, Mr. Wolfe published cutting-edge AIDS-immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, leading medical-immunology journals. Forbes.com: News
  • Mask's interanimation of the material and the ideational, of grit and philosophically-oriented intellection -- results in stanzas notably more literary and poetic than Wolfenstein's. Kaufman, Notes- _Reading Shelley's Interventionist Poetry, 1819-1820_ - Romantic Circles Praxis Series
  • Wolfe argues that this contradiction has three consequences for public administration.
  • 'Twas surely a prodigious fault on the part of the Marquis of Montcalm, to accept a battle from Wolfe on equal terms, for the British General had no artillery, and when we had made our famous scalade of the heights, and were on the Plains of Abraham, we were a little nearer the city, certainly, but as far off as ever from being within it. The Virginians
  • Thomas Wolfe talked about the " ghost of the old eagerness.
  • The teenager wolfed down the pizza
  • Of course, as Gene Wolfe sez, ‘Any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says.’
  • The new game, which does away with the renaissance fair and 3D moniker guff and is instead simply dubbed Wolfenstein, is headed to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC platforms. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • In an interview this week, Wolfe recalled how he and Dr. Goetzmann decided to spice up the social life for the doctoral students by organizing a "first annual" gin and jinrikisha race. Pulitzer-winning historian William Goetzmann dies at 80
  • Wolfe had the perfect story: The "first annual" gin and jinrikisha race. The Kandy Kolored Rickshaw Test (VAROOOOOM!)
  • Reyner Wolfe was a native of Dretunhe (?), in Gelderland, as shown by the letters of denization which he took out on the 2nd January 1533-4. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
  • The wolfer lay in his cabin and listened to the first few night sounds of the foothills. The Yellow Horde
  • He also constructed many canals and waterways including the Ulster Canal and the Queens Island on which the Harland and Wolfe shipyard was later built.
  • Alison Tamasi and Lauryn Wolfe presented a paper, "Synthesis of coordination polymers using the imide ligand [N - (4-carboxyphenyl) - 5-carboxypthalimide] and other novel imide ligands," at the division of inorganic chemistry symposium on Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry. News | LL | http://www.theledger.com
  • The experiment is, of course, an analogy for Wolfe's Dupont University, where the school's national champion basketball team is revered, and its players, all genetic freaks with, in effect, the thinking portion of their brains removed (they are discouraged from taking real courses), enjoy a "hypermanic" sex life with the eager coeds who line their paths. Cry Wolfe
  • It was perfect to dip naan bread in, and the pilau rice was wolfed down by Matt who seemed to enthuse about how special the chef's special was with every mouthful.
  • But, this morning I made him a scrambled egg sandwich and he wolfed it down.
  • After all, Wolfe observes, other threatened species live in the lease area, starting with a duck called the spectacled eider. The Edge of Extinction
  • Wolfe cut her off, but I can't report what he said because it was in Serbo-Croatian, of which I know maybe fifteen words. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct.
  • He is kind of hardheaded and doesn't want to take charity," Wolfe said. Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle
  • When Scott Wolfe hires someone for a job working a cash register or cutting meat, the odds are, that person was a customer first.
  • And, as Cary Wolfe and others have noted, the animalization of the Other is not confined to race.
  • One contestant wolfed down an animal tripe taco, while another was asked to try to trap a slippery pig drenched in butter.
  • More Japan Real Time: 'Texas 2 Burger' Yasutsuru Mori, a svelte 74 year-old patron, wolfed down a Texas 2 Burger this weekend. Beefing Up McDonald's
  • `I don't know," Wolfe said, leaning back in his chair and lacing his fingers over his belly. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Wolfe himself, with the good ship Centurion standing off like a sentinel at a point where the Basin, the River Montmorenci, and the North Channel seem to meet. The Seats of the Mighty, Complete
  • The cops gave him biscuits and gravy and he wolfed them down.
  • The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. Thomas Wolfe 
  • In his research, Dunn found a new mineral that he named wroewolfeite, after his professor of mineralogy.
  • The battle itself was additionally notable because both opposing generals, Wolfe and Montcalm, received mortal wounds.
  • The general conversation lulled rather after Sergeant Wolfe entered and began to eat mechanically.
  • The hackie showed no sign of interest when we climbed into his cab and Wolfe told him where to go. The Black Mountain
  • Mr Wolfensohn wants to see steps taken to produce and distribute a low-cost vaccine that is affordable in the developing world.
  • I wolfed down my soggy cereal and rinsed out the bowl before quickly walking out of the white kitchen to hide my tears.
  • Imagine if Wolfe had written a novel in which an investment banker runs over a middle-aged steelworker.
  • Nikki, newly divorced from her friendly husband Gary Chad Coleman is a soft soul with mental baggage—and a high-school nemesis still on the scene—from her days as a food wolfer. Lost Boys and Bad Girls
  • `Look," I said, swivelling in my chair to face Wolfe, `how long are we going to keep our houseguest? MURDER IN E MINOR
  • As they grew more trap-wise the wolfer increased the cunning of his sets. The Yellow Horde
  • Wolfe is president of the Justice for Pan Am 103 activist group.
  • The ensuing battle was short and decisive; although both Wolfe and Montcalm were fatally wounded, the French retreated and Quebec fell.
  • Wolfenden High School, built in 1913 to hold 900 pupils, held a special valedictory service yesterday to mark its closure.
  • A trilogy of plaster furnishings is in the naturalistic manner of Serge Roche, the French designer whose output Elsie de Wolfe and Syrie Maugham competed for in the '30s: a palm-tree torchier ($200 to $300), a mirror with pie-crust shell work ($500 to $800) and a glass table with a wheat-sheaf base ($200 to $300). NYT > Home Page
  • There is no happy land. There is no end to hunger. Thomas Wolfe 
  • I wolfed down the bobotie, a sort of South African mince pie with either dried fruit such as apricots and currants, or jam.
  • If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Most students are responsible and prudential and thus not as ribald as Wolfe makes them out to be.
  • The battle itself was additionally notable because both opposing generals, Wolfe and Montcalm, received mortal wounds.
  • ‘It is a disgrace to see the Church where Wolfe Tone was baptised and where the famous preacher John Wesley gave sermons being deconsecrated and turned into a pub,’ Mr Cassidy said.
  • Men do not escape from life because life is dull, but life escapes from men because men are little. Thomas Wolfe 
  • I wolfed my lunch down and caught a cab to meet Amy.
  • In Central Africa, where Wolfe has worked for over a decade, hundreds of thousands people still hunt and consume tropical wild game, called bushmeat. NPR Topics: News
  • And then it runs a reply from Wolfe - one that doesn't make him sound any more reasonable than the original article did.
  • Price is a better writer than Wolfe, but he began his career writing novels that, if not exactly movie-like, were readily assimilable to film. Realism in Fiction
  • I dashed outside and wolfed the meat down as fast as I could.
  • Still, he persevered, locking horns with Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote and critic Michiko Katutani, who he described as a "one-woman kamikaze", during his career. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • He wolfed his ham and corn bread, gulped from a canteen full of cold coffee. The Guns Of The South
  • Send Eve when you need someone to spell you," Wolfe said as he picked up the last ingot. ONLY YOU
  • I think his existential themes and effects of philosophical confusion are very interesting, but other authors, such as Gene Wolfe, handle them with greater ease and mastership of style. Mind-Shattering Novels of Philip K. Dick
  • As soon as Wolfe got settled at his desk Monday morning following his plant-room playtime, I swivelled to face him. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe 
  • But while dancing the mambo in a fruit headdress, this art history major secretly desired to emulate Elsie de Wolfe, the influential society decorator.
  • Lovers of these stories — can we not call them addicts? — often note that part of their appeal lies in their comfortingly familiar atmospheres: Holmes and Watson's rooms on Baker Street, with the "gasogene" (whatever that is) and the Persian slipper filled with pipe tobacco, or Wolfe's townhouse on West 35th, with its kitchen on the first floor and its plant rooms on the roof. Now, Read it Again
  • The old wolfer sat huddled in his furs before the fire, dreading to enter the little tent to crawl into his sleeping bag alone with his thoughts; for the white madness was driving its iron into his soul and striking at his reason. The Yellow Horde
  • ‘For those who have complained the proof is not there, this leaves little room for deniability,’ said Wolfe, who assisted on research for Black's book.
  • We wolfed-down chiles rellenos, one of our favourites, washed down with delicious chilled Pacificos. Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
  • `No, just the essentials," Wolfe said, riffling through the stack of mail I'd put on his blotter. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!! fastlane: Dr Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran dafuck: the only explenation could be a time warp in the middle of detroit .. bobacus: According to Curve magazine, Lesbian visitors will find a Detroit that's shifted into the 21st century. wolfer: only his body, his soul lives on, I heard it coming from a Escalade in the wal-mart parking lot last night dafuck: Micheal Jackson is dead? wotak: for best results, remove your nose to get the correct weight distribution wolfer: Im gonna practice and bring back the moon walk LinkSwarm.com
  • Kaufman is riffing on well-connected dots from Wolfe's reportage, as well as having a little fun with Johnson's reputation for old-school bullying and sulking.
  • Wolfe's cast brings a buoyant freshness to the play: Preston's innocent, tomboyish Miranda; Ellis's balletically beautiful Ariel, Bougere's feral poignancy. Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
  • The ascendancy of the Steichen sensibility emerged only in the 1940s, when the precisionist-inspired realism of John Rawlings, whose crisply defined color images, at once sharp and subtle (Dahl-Wolfe was his closest counterpart), showed the dress with more clarity and detail than had any previous Vogue photographer. “Show the Dress”
  • Soldiers were running in hordes to get out of the place, but Wolfe must have had accomplices - the walls were wreathed in sheets of flame taller than the guardhouses.
  • Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published and launched his career and created his fame.
  • On stage, employees were singing and performing comedy sketches while their colleagues in the audience wolfed down dim sum and applauded uproariously.
  • We wolfed down fabulous hamburgers, ham hocks, duck and pints of ale, though Soames astonishingly stuck to Diet Coke and no dessert.
  • Between killings Uzi wolfed down enormous slabs of apple pie and chocolate mousse cake.
  • Dull people filled him with terror. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Karl Wolfe had a half day to hunt for blacktail deer, but the outing ended just 15 minutes after he left his truck. Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • It's true that Gene Wolfe's command of prose is very good, and his far-future Earth-in-decline is worked out in intricate and suggestive detail. MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)
  • She bought a hot dog from a stand on a street corner and wolfed it down.
  • Forty-four Wolfe prints of landscapes, skyscapes and wildlife hang on the walls.
  • Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe 
  • I was forwarded an email from a lady called Joy Wolfe referring to the same report.
  • Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. Thomas Wolfe 
  • That can seem like a loss of regard for others’ feelings, as if we had become more self-centred, the ‘me-generation’ in Tom Wolfe's deprecatory phrase.
  • Champagne, fine wines, smoked salmon and strawberries have been wolfed down in staggering quantities during the five-day Royal Ascot at York festival.
  • Their marriage, as well as being a union of celebrities, became the template of an extravagant lifestyle in which one ordered without reflection, wolfed it down without pause and signed the bill without a glance at the total.
  • I wolfed down a ham and cheese sandwich and a piece of pumpkin pie. Only in America
  • He wolfed food the down, and then drank from the bowl of water that he had.
  • To Tom Wolfe, a dandy with an incurable bout of logorrhoea, words are like chips in Las Vegas.
  • Klint Kubiak's end zone interception was wiped out by a roughing the passer penalty and three plays later, Ryan Wolfe ran around left end for 13-yard touchdown. USATODAY.com
  • I have offered the leavings of a meal to a savage just after he had apparently gorged himself and he "wolfed" it as if he were famished. An African Adventure
  • The heroism glamorised by Wolfe and Kaufman was of the balls-out variety.
  • Attacked!" repeated Wolfe, -- "attacked!" and then suddenly sinking his voice into a sort of sneer, "why, since the event which this painting is designed to commemorate, I know not if we have ever had one solitary gleam of liberty break along the great chaos of jarring prejudice and barbarous law which we term forsooth a glorious constitution. The Disowned — Volume 02
  • He wolfed the peach down and wiped his bristled chin. An Old Peach
  • Wolfeboro is just about at the northern fringe of the climate where peaches will ripen, that is during favorable years in favored locations. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
  • That was one of the reasons Wolfe stuck to Parker; he was no dilly-dallier. Triple Jeopardy
  • Donovan had his own PT boat, which zipped him back and forth from Anzio to the OSS station in Bastia, where he wolfed down flapjacks and bacon in the dining hall with his men in the morning and sang Irish songs with them in the evening by a fireplace. Wild Bill Donovan
  • There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Thomas Wolfe 
  • In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct.
  • The same was true of fairy tales: I wolfed them down. The Dark Side of Innocence
  • If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Even David noticed the way she wolfed the cake down.
  • If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not think you have to go to Paris and wait for inspiration to strike. Thomas Wolfe 
  • At seventeen I snatched a paper plate, flipped the hamburger onto it, and wolfed the half-raw ground beef while I leaned against the cabinet. Duma Key
  • `I'm pretty thick-skinned, Mr Wolfe," he said, coming on again with that engaging grin that you see in society-page photographs. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe 
  • The only way to check in any degree the ravages of the wolves is by the most liberal use of strychnine, and the offal of any game killed by a cattle-man is pretty sure to be poisoned before being left, while the "wolfer," or professional wolf-killer strews his bait everywhere. III. The Grouse of the Northern Cattle Plains
  • Uncle Jay, wolfed out and ready to go, huffed and rolled his canine eyes. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
  • This time it was more successful, thanks to the nunciature of the Jesuit David Wolfe between 1561 and 1565.
  • Victory eluded the British for three months, until Wolfe successfully landed men on the Plains of Abraham above the citadel.
  • If I'd have been a real man, I would have bought one of the six pound pie beasts, I would not have wolfed my snack in private.
  • With an I just wolfed a whole bowl of super sour lemons puckery smile, she asks, Portia, what do you think the solution is? Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship
  • She scored top marks, and received the Lord Wolfenden prize for outstanding academic performance.
  • Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. Thomas Wolfe 
  • I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Alan Wolfe has an interesting essay on liberal hawks (via Jon Chait) that I think winds up going a bit awry by running together humanitarian arguments about the desirability of military intervention in particular (whether or not the arguer wanted to invade Iraq), with national security arguments about the desirability of invading Iraq that were offered by liberals (whether or not the arguer was making any distinctively “liberal” appeals). Matthew Yglesias » Alan Wolfe on Liberal Hawks
  • For Collins knew the qualities of his prey and a good wolfer leaves no sign. The Yellow Horde
  • It's no coincidence (though Coupland's novels are sprinkled with them) that of all the writers who could be drafted in to make a back-patting comment for the blurb, Tom Wolfe is on the newie.
  • And so it was, for about 12 hours, until Wolfe's tirade was reposted, without Soffer informing her readers of her commitment to remove it, and this time with 209 incendiary comments so severe that some my friends told me to get security and avoid Crown Heights. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: ‘Kosher Jesus’ And The Religious Websites That Want Me Crucified
  • I followed and, since my own desk is across the room from where he'd plopped down, I sat behind Wolfe's. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • As we wolfed down our sachertorte and stuffed our faces with apfelstrudel, peddlars in Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • I thought it would be good for the panade, which is based on a Paula Wolfert recipe from some years back- I forget which book, which called for a "deep earthenware casserole. Soup of the Evening
  • Tossing the pills into the basket, I heard crunching noises as the creature inside greedily wolfed them down.
  • It was partly Wolfe's portrait of the Bronx - a bleak, unprepossessing gang land - that has kept me away all this time.
  • Twenty years later, still sprouting sideburns and a head of thick, oil-black hair, Wolfe still looks every bit the rock 'n' roll dude.
  • Hiking in darkness and a steady rain up a steep Sitka slope, Wolfe was attacked Sunday morning by a grizzly bear, which chomped down on his arm and knocked him to the ground. ... Grizzly Bear Attacks Alaska Blacktail Hunter
  • Jim Wolfe#59 … multifactorial reasons … first and foremost, to deny Saddam the same control of the region that Iran is now looking for. Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
  • At a news conference on Wednesday, Wolfensohn said his meetings in SA - which he described as the regional economic powerhouse - would include discussions on trade and investment which might flow from SA to the region, and the extent to which the World Bank could be useful. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Afraid to argue further, Yeager went to fetch a bottle of whiskey and a pan of cold boiled beef, which Gallagher wolfed down.
  • If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe 
  • If you come down out of those hills I'll stretch your pelt," the wolfer stated. The Yellow Horde
  • Wolfe offers an updated understanding of fraternities as social lockboxes far removed from their bawdy Animal House progenitors.
  • `Archie, we're putting together the second-day stuff on the Stevens case, along with a sidebar piece on you and Wolfe," Lon Cohen said. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Thomas Wolfe 
  • You don't need a playbill to tell that the lecherous, black-clad Wolfe, who swaps hockey tickets for political favours, is the heavy here - if he had a moustache, he'd twirl it.
  • At his feet is a dog turning a cartwheel, seemingly to the snap of Wolfe's fingers.
  • Wolfen felt the man would stick out in a crowd like a sore thumb, with his long beak of a nose.
  • Instead of our bodies having to work double-time to sift out the nutrients from food that is wolfed down anxiously, what if we gave our bodies an easier time of it?
  • If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe 
  • At the same time this date coincided with Wolfe Tone Day, the largest celebration of the 1798 Rising in Ireland during the centennial year.
  • A bonus of decoding the fungi's genome, Wolfe said, would be that, in degrading plant material, the fungi produces an enzyme called cellulase, of potential interest in biofuel processing. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • This is despite having 'wolfed' down a quarter of the prey, because they never knew where their next meal was coming from. Moshad could sniff out Gibson.
  • Wolfe and Thompson were of the same journalistic generation, and we are all chauvinists for our era.
  • I wolfed it, famished, while cats scratched at gaps in the floorboards and invisible mice.
  • I dug into my food, almost wolfed it down, then a sudden thought occurred to me.
  • The old wolfer caught the fever and followed the last of them. The Yellow Horde
  • Wolfen shouted at him and practically punched the button on the elevator.
  • Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe 
  • The bicoastal bashes, which will feature barbeque meals at his Lake Winnipesaukee residence near Wolfeboro, N.H., and at his ocean-front property in La Jolla, Calif., are part of the campaign's effort to reward big fundraisers who have joined its "Medalist Program. The Center for Public Integrity: Conservative donor Bob Perry gives big to Pawlenty, Romney -- and Rick Perry
  • I'd wolfed down a small bowl of cereal early Saturday morning and darted into the city to pick up last-minute Carnival regalia before the Monday jump-up: spray paint, glitter, cosmetics and stockings.
  • Lost in Showbiz doffs its chapeau to Vogue for doing our job for us this week with its Tom Wolfe-esque feature about who the "party people" will vote for in that general election thingummybob. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. Thomas Wolfe 
  • He wolfed down the rest of the biscuit and cheese.
  • There were many of his kind so maimed, and the wolfers, abbreviating the term peg-legs, called these three-footed ones "pegs. The Yellow Horde
  • And while other housemates recoiled in horror at the thought of picking objects out of a bucket of sheep's eyes, he grabbed a handful and wolfed it down.
  • While there have been many distinguished American winners, including Tom Wolfe and John Updike, bad sex veterans reserve a special place in their hearts for Norman Mailer, who won posthumously in 2007 for a passage in which the word "excrement" is used so alarmingly that it threatens to put a reader off sex for good. NYT > Home Page
  • Wolfe's op-ed stem-winder was widely seen as decisive in sending the Foster scheme to defeat last month, but the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has rejected so much new construction within the Upper East Side Historic District of late, the outcome of the hearing was already a foregone conclusion. Martin Filler: Uncle Tom's Crabbin'
  • You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe 
  • To Tom Wolfe, a dandy with an incurable bout of logorrhoea, words are like chips in Las Vegas.
  • Wolfe opens the book by describing the experiment that earned Dupont psychologist Victor Starling a Nobel Prize: when a critical portion of a cat's brain was removed in the lab, the cat entered a "hypermanic" state of sexual arousal, which was then imitated by "control" cats that had not undergone the operation. Cry Wolfe
  • Great men have great idiosyncrasies, and the stubbornness with which Wolfe reproduces his exclamatory voice after it has been mimicked so many times makes it appear less a fault than a flourish.
  • Send Eve when you need someone to spell you," Wolfe said as he picked up the last ingot. ONLY YOU
  • It was perfect to dip naan bread in, and the pilau rice was wolfed down by Matt who seemed to enthuse about how special the chef's special was with every mouthful.
  • Through the years, Wolfe has reluctantly questioned a lot of women, but this was the capper. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • Wolfe is president of the Justice for Pan Am 103 activist group.
  • Alberta CrossAlberta Cross is the blues-rock quintette founded by Stockholm native Petter Ericson Stakee (vocals, guitar) and Londoner Terry Wolfers (bass) in 2005. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Rewind, Volume I
  • Sticking with her knew found pretensious (sp) vibe, Natalie portman decides to make Bruise afraid of Virgian Wolfe. BRUISEBUTT PORTMAN ALSO DIRECTS
  • Wolfe then opened the Times, which signalled the end of the discussion. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • On the verandah I wolfed dinner as hungry walkers do.
  • Dresser and cocomposer Lamont Wolfe fiddle around with tape manipulation productively (and often imperceptibly) on "Trenchant"; "Trains" is a humorous piece for tape and bass complete with (you guessed it) train noises. Chicago Reader
  • Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. Thomas Wolfe 
  • (Wolfe's classic The Fifth Head of Cerberus is dedicated "To Damon Knight, who one well-remembered June evening in 1966 grew me from a bean.") Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives
  • In just three tablespoons of hoummos, you will have wolfed down 168 calories. Times, Sunday Times
  • Collins noted the absence of coyote tracks on trails that had once been padded thick with them and the wolfer chuckled over this evidence of their resourcefulness. The Yellow Horde
  • Wolfe's theories were revolutionary and iconoclastic.
  • Felker, who was married to Vanity Fair contributing editor Gail Sheehy, founded New York magazine in 1968 and, as a mentor to Tom Wolfe and many other writers, was integral to the development of New Journalism, which transformed the way magazines were written. Clay Felker: 1925–2008: Vanity Fair
  • The photographs in the book are shot with a wide-angle lens, allowing Wolfe to depict animals in intimate connection with their habitats.
  • Her soft whimpering had roused the wolfer each time this occurred and every new admirer had been greeted with a charge of buckshot as he slipped toward the house, three dog coyotes having paid for their temerity with their lives. The Yellow Horde
  • Wolfe is president of the Justice for Pan Am 103 activist group.
  • The ladies in the town below complain through Miss Brett to Mrs. Wolfe of the unsociality of the garrison. Lectures and Essays
  • `You know why I've come," he snarled at Wolfe, chewing on his stogie. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up. Thomas Wolfe 
  • When the man had at last gone off, it was found that he had "wolfed" young master's best walking-stick, one with a fine tortoise-shell top to it. The Lodger
  • Joliveau is herself a soprano, Wolfe is a composer and woodwind player, and Smith plays the double bass.
  • David M. Nieporent says: wolfefan: For me as an Anabaptist, a Mennonite woman working in such a job is not surprising, but disappointing. The Volokh Conspiracy » EEOC Concludes Company Should Have Reasonably Accommodated Employee’s Felt Religious Obligation to Wear a Headscarf 

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