How To Use Writings In A Sentence

  • There is a good deal in this case and other writings about the need for the law to adapt to modern social conditions.
  • Ancient writings reinforce their claims to the land.
  • The writings of a great amoralist - a de Sade, a Stirner, a Nietzsche - can inspire a handful of murders in two centuries.
  • In many ways one can look at Wilkins's work as popularising the more technical writings of Mersenne.
  • The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
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  • Aragon's writings circulated anonymously or under pseudonyms.
  • It will be remembered that this short period suffices to give only a nucleal point in the matter of writings. The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama Their Leaders and Their Work
  • Sometimes the second reading, usually made from the Apostolic writings, had the same theme especially in Lent or Advent.
  • One of the most interesting novelties of the volume was the so-called ‘moving trihedrals’ for twisted curves as well as surfaces so freely used in writings of Darboux and others.
  • From his observation and writings, it is clear that the structures of intelligence and feelings begin to evolve during infancy.
  • I never wanted this blog to be a diary - it was supposed to be an outlet for my various writings.
  • When he died in 1995, she and her younger brother, Te Rakaherea, became the guardians of Sir Maui's writings, his taonga and even his mana.
  • The only other surviving writings that are exclusively apocalyptic in style come from outside our biblical canon and are usually unfamiliar to anyone but scholars in the field.
  • The religious dimension that undeniably is to be found in his writings adheres, however, to no particular creed. Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Presentation Speech
  • Huxley's interest in these great problems appears and reappears throughout his published writings, but his views are most clearly and systematically exposed in his "Romanes" lecture on "Evolution and Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
  • In addition, the rural population is sometimes seen as a specific class in Marx's historical writings, as is the Lumpenproletariat (“dregs of society”), so that we obtain an image of society, which, far from the usual dichotomic or trichotomic image, is differentiated into several strata with multiple interests. CLASS
  • If the Greek MSS and lectionaries are any indication of what the church has accepted as its written authority -- and if the writings of influential Christian leaders whose work shaped the canon mean anything -- then Mark 16:9-20 should be accepted as the ending of the Gospel of Mark. Easter Sunday School
  • [146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
  • Emphasis on the omnipotence of God is still more pronounced in the writings of William of Ockham.
  • Would such conjuring tricks give their writings more authority?
  • Above all, his writings and his leadership made him the undoubted doyen of British railway historians.
  • It is known in their writings as the “halo,” the “aureola,” or the “glory.” CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE
  • TONY: It's people like this guy that helps you out in the law library and get you familiarized with the different legal books and terminology and writings that really helps out a lot for those who want to utilize it. 'Running The Books' In A Prison Library
  • To create a canon of sacred writings is to create a collection which will be in some sense normative for the community for which it is intended.
  • Her writings reflect her commitment to the underclass whose lives are often portrayed inaccurately in American literature.
  • You know 1/6 of his writingsNewton wrote a tremendous amountwas caught up in alchemical knowledge in one way or the other and he believed that there were secrets to be uncovered, that the ancients had this great knowledge. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
  • The love of the Sacred Heart was the fire which consumed her, and devotion to the Sacred Heart is the refrain of all her writings. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions.
  • His writings include poetry and prose.
  • It is this period of eclecticism which is reflected for us in the philosophical writings of Cicero. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • All historical writings, even those which deal with complicated and abstract ideas, narrate stories about people and their lives.
  • It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well. Robert Browning
  • He filled his writings with discussions of plows, air pumps, compasses, canal locks, balloons and steam power.
  • No other scripture of any other religion of the world contains any kind of writings of holy men belonging to another faith, caste or creed, or of those who were regarded as outcastes or untouchables.
  • One does not have to read very deeply in the scholarly literature on eschatology, the gospels, or Christology before running into the writings of Richard Bauckham.
  • Additional material found in certain psalters includes refrains used for antiphonal psalmody and appendices containing canticles or other sacred writings.
  • The signal merit of his writings is the exact opposite of "cleverality"; it is that he always means exactly what he says. Dr. Johnson and His Circle
  • This omnibus, richly illustrated and produced, puts together all his writings over the years.
  • His specialties were the treatment of rectal and venereal diseases, but no search of his published writings or other literature unearthed any mention of his treating so-called fistulas of the penis. Portrait of a Killer
  • One of their answers they did not give forth publicly, but only to us in private -- when they said that the writings of the New Testament had been tampered with by unknown persons who desired to ingraft the Jewish law into the Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
  • None of Bacon's writings gives in short apace so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this fragment of the plan of an ideal commonwealth. New Atlantis
  • Her book looks at his writings from a feminist slant.
  • The female incapable of intellectual purpose, governed by her whims and humours, is a misogynistic cliche not only of the time, but very much of his writings.
  • It was the custom in Europe for a great professor to be presented with a Festschrift filled with writings by his students and admirers.
  • The story of Jaddus would be entitled to our respect — it would be beyond the reach of animadversion — were even any shadow of it to be found in the sacred writings; but as they do not make the slightest mention of it, we are quite at liberty to see that it is ridiculous. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • You say we should "deconstruct" all truth claims (a founder of "deconstructionism," Paul de Man. whose writings are still influential in American universities, was a Belgian fascist) because there are no facts, only opinions? Fascism's Second Spring
  • This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
  • Tucker's writings are diffuse and unmethodical, but marked by humour and quaint illustration and comment.
  • But it will be her agony aunt writings that - in a thousand unnoted homes - may have done the most good. Times, Sunday Times
  • He only began his writings at the age of 52 and his ranting style of delivery, often on street corners to a puzzled audience, marked him out for a lifetime of ridicule and poverty.
  • Christian writings did not enter into his consideration here in the very remotest degree; but it is plain that a later generation could as easily ascribe Christian writings to the inspiration of the Spirit as St Paul ascribed glossolaly and prophecy. The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.
  • Nothing has yet been said about the cursive writings of the Egyptians; but they had two cursive writings – namely, the "hieratic," and the "demotic. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • I am somewhat miffed that if I am ever to achieve this ambition, I will have to put up with rather too much of this idiot's writings.
  • He does, however, modify this position slightly in his later writings as we shall see shortly.
  • Blogs range from offering recipes to requests for prayers, to moving spiritual reflections and writings about saints to polemics about political correctness in the pulpit.
  • It's quite mad, and the texts are adapted from unpublished writings Edward sent the band expressly for the purpose, shortly before his lamented death.
  • Returning to our correspondent's writings in The Age of 8 April 1998, it's plain that neither is the case.
  • The writings in the last half of the century have provided a consistent matrifocal perspective.
  • Rochester's writings embody many of the contradictions of this intermediary era.
  • His writings range from ancient to contemporary art, and include a study of Giorgione's paintings.
  • His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style.
  • Pointless overdecoration, GertrudeStein explains, thinking of the commas and periods she has plucked from the pages of her writings. Serendip's Exchange -
  • That the writings of Mr. Boole and myself "go to the full justification of" this "principle," is only true in the sense in which the Scotch use, or did use, the word _justification_. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
  • If you should be convinced by argument, not only that the pamphlet before you is not a libel, but that almost all those political writings, which it has been the habit of certain people, taking up the cry from their leaders, to call libels, are not merely not dangerous but beneficial to political society; is it possible to conceive, that you can be induced to pronounce a verdict of guilty against the defendant! A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father
  • Such writings were highly formal exercises in style and rhetoric, often delighting in dialectically arguing for and against a particular topic.
  • There being little or no biblical evidence for any of these claims, the programme focused on apocryphal writings - including a Gospel of Mary Magdalene which turned up in 1945.
  • The contract requires prepublication review of nonofficial writings by the government in order to protect sensitive information.
  • The only clues are in some of his writings and tape recordings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here, the author is conscious of balancing between the anti-Spartan bias current in the speeches of contemporary Athenian rhetors and the detached tenor in the writings of democracy's elite critics.
  • His writings are also a major source for the social history of his age.
  • His writings were remunerative to him far beyond the ordinary measure, yet he never wrote for money.
  • But, sir, according to my judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself that here stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, old and modern writings, but the sweet fruits of amorous dalliance, which Venus liketh best when reaped in secret, and culled by fervent lovers filchingly. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
  • The new performance space will resound with their poetry, prose and plays, as they share their writings with the audience.
  • Gnostic writings repeatedly stress divine revelation and the need for both human effort toward realizing gnosis, as well as the need for corresponding divine grace or angelic help.
  • Perhaps even more significant, they were also adept at interpreting even the writings of the New Testament according to this dualistic code.
  • The most curious feature of the performance is that here again it is from end to end a travesty of Éliphas Lévi, slice after slice from his chief writings, combined with interlineal additions, which give them a sense diametrically opposed to that of the great magus. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It's not possible to read Paul's New Testament writings and remain unmoved by his open heart, intellectual prowess and staggering bravery. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
  • The text of the canonical writings at this point was written in unpointed Hebrew (and, in a few parts, Aramaic).
  • Althusser's writings are focused mainly on France.
  • Tyndall was an expert and enthusiastic mountaineer, calculating how high the energy in a ham sandwich would take him; his writings about the alps are suffused with pantheism.
  • Heretofore Biblical writers have given to us battles, laws, histories, songs; now we have in Solomon's writings a new style in short, epigrammatic sentences. The Woman's Bible
  • In addition, the state itself is subject to the diverse cultural pressures and social fissures to which intellectuals, in their writings about folk religion, give voice.
  • Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whether by arrogance and malice so that they alone may be held to possess the secrets of God, I know not: this much I do know, that I find in their writings nothing which has the air of a Divine secret, but only childish lucubrations. Theologico-Political Treatise
  • The writings of young teenage boys and girls in different refugee camps and occupied towns are the most moving part of the book.
  • Now, you've studied particularly the writings, the love letters of people who actually write as an avocation.
  • I will in future regard your writings and opinions as the product of an offensive and foul-mouthed individual.
  • Inevitably, a selection of subjects from Augustine's voluminous writings reflects the particular interests and views of the author.
  • The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bible includes additional Jewish writings called the Apocrypha.
  • Virginia Senator George Allen tried to make Dem Jim Webb's treatment of women a central issue in the campaign, attacking Webb on the stump and in ads for his allegedly misogynic fiction writings and his essays about the problems of having women in military academies. VA-SEN: CNN Exit Polls: Webb Well Ahead Among Women
  • With these they were something perswaded, and prevailed upon by the same person, to permit him to carry away all that were left undefaced, by which means, the writings the church hath now came to be preserved. The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral
  • The book references Star Trek, Queer Nation kiss-ins, the writings of Lenin and Max Weber, and the Paris Commune - it's groovy.
  • The contract requires prepublication review of nonofficial writings by the government in order to protect sensitive information.
  • Also, you need years of study, a specialization in paleography, and several years of work experience to decode the ancient writings. Tracking Down the Tale of the Knights Templar | Impact Lab
  • Yet his writings make clear that his political views were in large part shaped by defending clients at the wrong end of the apartheid laws. Times, Sunday Times
  • This simple reality is hidden from view by early philosophical and theological anticipations of mass schooling in various writings about social order and human nature.
  • There is mention of this meal in the report of Archdeacon Theodosius and in the anonymous little work called "The Jerusalem Breviary, " as also in subsequent writings.
  • Apart from the writings of Erasmus and Luther only two books of the sixteenth century can be acclaimed as bestsellers.
  • All this is consistent with rabbinic writings recorded many centuries before.
  • The writings of Ern Malley, in spite of the intentions of the authors, have reached canonical literary status with their inclusion in their entirety in the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry.
  • These writings, buttressed by profoundly moral concerns, are testimony to the complexity of the relationships between health and working.
  • Finally, I am able to bring you a new dream this morning, on a proud occasion for this website and my other web writings.
  • Crowley's own voluminous writings, published and unpublished, contain no reference to a religion of pagan witches.
  • He left no writings, but his arguments were recorded in many volumes by his pupil Clitomachus.
  • Herbanus the Jew was a man excellently well instructed in the law, and holy books of the prophets, and the Octateuch, and all the other writings. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • The writings of Albertus Magnus, Arnaud de Villeneuve, and Raymond Lully were in the hands of the hermetics. Là-bas
  • Her films and writings establish an exchange between high and popular culture, art and commerce.
  • Most of the chapter consists of criticisms of Johnson's writings on naturalism and the philosophy of science.
  • Their writings took powerful hold of academic circles.
  • Readers will find a central concern about the factors that influence social welfare a characteristic of many writings on social policy.
  • Those writings are largely based upon Freud's assertion that firesetting in youth is a regressive retreat to ‘primitive man's’ desire to gain power and control over nature.
  • In his writings and media appearances, Brooks insightfully deploys scientific research to demonstrate how "deeply interpenetrated" we humans are. Michael Sigman: Brooks Pits 'Connection' vs. 'Adventure,' But Why Not Both?
  • In their fictive and non-fictive writings, they provided numerous, often very vivid, accounts of sexual abuse.
  • That literature is almost exclusively religious, or rather (with the exception of the Gnostic writings and a few magical texts) ecclesiastical, either as to its contents (Bible, lectionaries, martyrologies, etc.) or as to its purpose (grammars and vocabularies composed with reference to the ecclesiastical books). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • But now that he is remaining in the Obama administration, the official said, he is likely to focus as well on the tasks he has envisioned in his public statements and writings, such as refitting the Pentagon to focus on “institutionalizing counterinsurgency skills and the ability to conduct stability and support operations,” rather than focusing just on traditional combat, as he recently wrote in a Foreign Affairs article. Doin Thangs | ATTACKERMAN
  • Dylan's 1965-6 writings touch often on the idea of ceasing to argue - a big advance for so contrary a dualist. Expecting Rain
  • An annotated bibliography of his writings on Cornish folklore is also presented.
  • The canon of his prose writings long included De Doctrina Christiana, an unorthodox theological treatise first printed in 1825.
  • Their knowledge of ancient languages gave them access to the esoteric writings of bygone ages, writings which supposedly contained secret knowledge about the nature of the world. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
  • Sources of historical data include ancient inscriptions, annals, chronicles, governmental and private estate records, maritime and commercial records, personal papers, and scientific writings.
  • He also left extensive studies of human anatomy based on dissection of animals and anatomical writings of others.
  • Chinese sources refer to catapult-launched exploding projectiles in 1221, but some historians have argued that the references date to later rewritings of the sources. Relics of the Kamikaze
  • Hawkins condensed all his writings into one volume for publication.
  • But his religious views apparently contain testable but false, propositions about the natural, physical world, propositions which contradict his scientific writings. All those liars for Jesus
  • Jordaens was fined 200 pounds and 15 shillings for scandalous or heretical writings between 1651 and 1658. Archive 2009-03-01
  • They comment on, gloss, and interpret his writings, and spend too little time in empirical observation and investigation.
  • Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. On The Art of Reading
  • The writings of Buddhist disciples portray Siddhrtha Gautama as a fruitarian. The Fruit Hunters
  • Their story is told in sacred writings of the biblical period, although the two books of the same name are not officially a part of either testament.
  • This school derives from pre-existing streams of Indian Mahyna thought based on the writings of Asaga and Vasubandhu which crystallized into the Indian Yogcra (also known as the Vijñnavda) school.
  • Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir.
  • At the period of the presumed date of this document blotting paper was unknown, writings being dried by means of a specially prepared fine powder called pounce, sand, or a powder containing fine crystals of metal intended to give an ornamental gloss to the ink. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents
  • So began an on-again/off-again romance fully charted in this compendious collection of Marcus's occasional writings on his hero. Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review
  • Mouna is used solely for the purpose of channelling the energy dissipated in talking to a higher practice, such as japa, prayer, or svadhyaya, the study of spiritual writings see pages 118-19. The Sivananda Companion To Meditation
  • We encounter the term ‘ape man’ in its Greek version, Pithecanthropus, in the writings of Ernst Haeckel, who was one of Charles Darwin's great supporters in Germany during the nineteenth century.
  • Ficino gave particular consideration to the melancholic temperament in his writings.
  • the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings
  • His writings were edited by the Maurist Beaugendre: "Venerabilis Hildeberti opera tam edita quam inedita", Paris, 1708, and with some additions by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Photographs can be enlarged, so that even the impressions of the writings on stones could be clearly seen.
  • Besides western art and literature, many volumes dealt with the oriental world: its history, religion, writings, sculpture, painting, ceramics.
  • Yet the texts are firmly part of the later medieval world: the first two come from the writings of visionary women mystics and the last from a rigorously ascetic monastic theologian.
  • He used their writings to forge autographs and whole letters, as well as trying to pass off others' work as his own. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The relationship between illness and creativity interested him, and he often emphasized it in his prose writings.
  • he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
  • In the first phase of her writing, which adhered to Freudian theory for the most part, Klein laid down the principles of child psychoanalysis, reworked Freud’s developmental timetable by arguing that the child was capable of certain types of mental activities at an early age, and elaborated on the importance of the child’s fantasy (in Klein’s writings referred to as phantasy) life (Segal, 1974). Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
  • Occasional writings include several pieces he did for this magazine - mainly appreciations on the occasion of the deaths of fellow artists.
  • She could see no sense in taking the best hours of the day for "scribbling," and it was only in the later years when Father had a steady income from his writings that her point of view softened. My Boyhood
  • His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style.
  • His right-wing opinions come out quite strongly in his later writings.
  • And in his recent writings, as the actual--or, in his Heideggerian terminology, the "ontic"--possibility of revolution recedes, its "ontological" importance has increased. Enowning
  • His voluminous writings became scripture defining the party line and the correct view of history.
  • Eusebius and Chrysostom, made frequent use in their writings of the term Theotokos, Mother of God. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
  • In 2006 a Jeddah court convicted an Eritrean national Muhammad Burhan for "charlatanry" because he possessed a phone book that contained writings in the Tigrinya alphabet used in Eritrea. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
  • The Reverend's writings on the Brahma viharas are greatly inspired by the radiant Compassion of Kuan Yin.
  • We now wish to show that in antecedents, education, temperament, and in her writings, she represents the mass of her contemporaries – is a type of her era. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
  • Judge Meek's writings teem with the romantic and marvellous incidents of the early history of Alabama, such as De Soto's march to the Mississippi, the Battle of Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
  • From the writings of Seneca, we know that the Romans spent large sums of money building their baths.
  • A consistent theme in Charles's writings is his belief in human freedom - and his abhorrence for violence and tyranny.
  • Throughout the Inspired Writings, men are dealt with by their Maker, as suasible, accountable, and free.
  • For those readers who have followed Hannah Arendt's writings and who may have wondered about occasional differences of style and clarity from one to the other, there is a postface by Miss McCarthy that describes in fascinating detail the 'Englishing' of Hannah Arendt. Stopping to Think
  • As a man of learning, in which capacity the name of Usher became celebrated throughout Europe, and is especially known to modern times, his principal services to the cause of literature were in the departments of eccle - siastical history and chronology, which, in - deed, in his writings go hand in hand. The lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher; with notices of the principal English men of letters with whom they were connected
  • We may "pshaw" and "pooh" at Harry Gill and the Idiot Boy; but the deep and tremulous tenderness of sentiment, the strong-winged flight of fancy, the excelling and unvarying purity, which pervade all the writings of Wordsworth, and the exquisite melody of his lyrical poems, must ever continue to attract and purify the mind. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
  • The elimination of Scots from unpublished writings like local records took some decades longer.
  • In legal writings the term is applied to the leader of the congregational prayers in the mosque.
  • Since Dawkins’ philosophical/theological (atheological?) writings seem, from what I have seen, to mostly be of interest to Christians (such as Dembski, who appears here to be exhorting the readers of his blog to watch a pro-atheism film… hm), I don’t really see any particular reason to read them or really care about them much. Dembski: God's best gift to intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb
  • He relates in his writings that he developed some medicines which were almost miraculous cures.
  • In this new publication, Tange expanded on themes that he had already begun to explore in the earlier writings on Jomon and Yayoi.
  • But all of the sacred writings say that you will devour the wicked and the unrighteous.
  • The Scriptures are to be read in light of Torah because Torah, judged canon-historically, forms the ‘center,’ while the Prophets and the Writings are interpretations of this center.
  • With respect to matter in extenuation and mitigation offered by the defense, the court may relax the rules of evidence to the extent of receiving affidavits, certificates of military and civil officers, and other writings of similar apparent authenticity and reliability. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
  • His voluminous writings on the subject for a time enjoyed huge popularity. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It is frequently mentioned in the poetic writings of the period.
  • I think that the latter point is significant here, as the posts on eagle owls, phorusrhacids, the Madagascar pochard, and the 10 bird meme were not spin-offs of my own ideas, but were instead initiated by the writings of others. Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part II)
  • Mayo was inspired by Emerson's writings, but distinguished his beliefs from those aspects of transcendentalist philosophy which his audience found offensive.
  • An invariable theme at prayer meetings and in Gandhi's voluminous writings was the urgency to bring devotion in accord with conduct.
  • But the disdain of these accomplished economists for supply-side economics can easily be deduced from their writings and congressional testimony.
  • Judging by his alchemy and religious writings, which considerably outnumber those concerned with scientific matters, he clearly believed that some of these questions were answerable by other methods.
  • She affixes her real name to her writings.
  • Certainly, this is reflected in concerns about the validity of using the writings of previous religious scholars for legitimating arguments over the correct performance of ritual.
  • They almost unanimously hold that the narrative of the patriarch's life is composed practically in its entirety of three writings or writers called respectively the Jahvist, the Elohist, and the priestly writer, and denoted by the letters J, E, and P. J and E consisted of collections of stories relating to the patriarch, some of older, some of later, origin. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Say's writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime.
  • His writings on language, particularly his universally acknowledged concept of ‘Newspeak’, are formidable weapons in our armoury against ruling class spin doctors.
  • The tripartite division of Jewish tradition into Law, Prophets, and Writings does not favor a midpoint, or at least has not led to a discussion of center, despite the importance of the Torah.
  • Gnostic writings repeatedly stress divine revelation and the need for both human effort toward realizing gnosis, as well as the need for corresponding divine grace or angelic help.
  • The writings consider gender, sexual, and ethnic difference as, respectively, recuperable within and alternative to national identity.
  • This was followed by other uncatholic writings, e.g. one against the doctrine of the Church on confession (Augsburg, 1521) and a sermon on the Holy Eucharist The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • no prudent person will deny that there is need of many supplements and explanations from other writings" than the Bible, to the end, namely, that a person may construe from the German Bibles the true Catholic faith. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
  • What this Octateuch should be, distinct from the law and the prophets, and indeed what all the other writings besides should be, is not easily guessed. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • The greatest part of his writings is not confutable: it is historical and critical. ' Life of Johnson
  • Even his opponents continually referred to him as an eminent and brilliant legal scholar, but I certainly didn't find anything in his voluminous writings that could possibly justify such praise.
  • “Here are some writings that will put your cruelty to shame: peruse these sheets with unwet eyes, if you can. Chapter VIII. Book VII
  • Imtiaz has based many of her writings on her childhood experiences in Scotland.
  • In his recent writings, Millennium People [10] and Kingdom Come, [11] Ballard depicts a Britain bereft of social values other than those of daytime TV and the shopping centre, and while his central characters can lack credibility his general description of the cultural landscape is far more accurate than almost anything that has been published in the pages of any recent architectural publication. Ballardian » A Near Future: Nic Clear’s Tribute to JG Ballard
  • The sacred edifice, completely in their hands, was soon laid waste; they broke down the altars, destroyed the monuments, and -- much will the bibliophile deplore it -- set fire to their immense library "_ingens bibliotheca_," maliciously tearing into pieces all their valuable and numerous charters, evidences, and writings. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
  • Johnson's writings numerous passages written in that essentially vicious style to which the name Johnsonese has been cruelly given; but the searcher could not fail to find many passages guiltless of this charge. Obiter Dicta Second Series
  • His writings are concerned with religious phenomena at the individual level.
  • Similar instances could be given from every country, and one of the most instructive is to be found in the writings of Colonel F.N. Maude, C.B., Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women
  • What I wrote about Justin and Tertullian is true and comes directly from their own writings. Carry-Over Thread
  • As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
  • There is enough recorded evidence to the contrary even in the writings of some captains of slave ships.

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