michael dirda造句
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- This year's Irregular lecturer, Michael Dirda, a critic for The Washington Post, recalled " the sheer animal joy " of reading, with blanket, flashlight and candy bars, " The Hound of the Baskervilles " while a youngster in an Ohio mill town.
- To get some other ideas, you might have a look at the books " Classics for Pleasure " by Michael Dirda and " Classics Revisited " and " More Classics Revisited " by Kenneth Rexroth . talk ) 21 : 30, 11 February 2008 ( UTC)
- Early reviews : " A big mixed bag of a book, hilariously funny at times, poignant and sad at others, that manages to get a pretty firm grip on how, if not why, the war still remains an obsession with so many Americans, " says Michael Dirda in the Washington Post.
- Michael Dirda considers Stendhal " the greatest all round French writer-- author of two of the top 20 French novels, author of a highly original autobiography ( " Vie de Henry Brulard " ), a superb travel writer, and as inimitable a presence on the page as any writer you'll ever meet ."
- Michael Dirda of " The Washington Post " disagreed, remarking that " " Anathem " will certainly be admired for its intelligence, ambition, control and ingenuity ", but describing it as " fundamentally unoriginal ", " grandiose, overwrought and pretty damn dull . " The novel entered " Nature ".
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- And, in a review of " The Subtle Knife, " the second volume, Michael Dirda argued in The Washington Post that the books deserved a place alongside such children's classics as Madeleine L'Engle's " Wrinkle in Time " and Philippa Pearce's " Tom's Midnight Garden ."
- Key characters from " In War Time " make appearances in " This Shared Dream " while trying to thwart the machinations of an unseen enemy bent on using the Hadntz Device to alter history for their ends . " This Shared Dream " received a glowing review by Michael Dirda of " The Washington Post ".
- He befriended Michael Dirda, a chief book reviewer for " The Washington Post " and, as a result of that friendship, in the 1980s and 1990s Sullivan wrote commissioned reviews of dozens of books for " The Washington Post ", the " Washington Post Book World ", and " USA Today ".
- Michael Dirda of the Washington Post called it an irresistible biography . In addition, she has published articles in the " New York Times ", " Horticulture ", " Fine Gardening " and " Hortus ", as well as a chapter in Rosemary Verey s " The Secret Garden ".
- As Kostova explains, " Dracula is a metaphor for the evil that is so hard to undo in history . " As Michael Dirda explains in " The Washington Post ", the novel conveys the idea that " Most of history's worst nightmares result from an unthinking obedience to authority, high-minded zealotry seductively overriding our mere humanity ."
- It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness . " Michael Dirda, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning critic, concurred with Pound's view regarding the vitality of a classic when he wrote that " . . . one of the true elements of a classic " was that " they can be read again and again with ever-deepening pleasure ."
- Michael Dirda, in his review for " The Washington Post ", describes these notes as " dazzling feats of imaginative scholarship ", in which the anonymous narrator " provides elaborate mini-essays, relating anecdotes from the lives of semi-legendary magicians, describing strange books and their contents, speculating upon the early years and later fate of the Raven King ".
- Fanny Bowater was looking for the moon . " Consumed with ambition to escape her poverty and narrow surroundings, Fanny is " desperately capricious and of a cat-like cruelty . " " A pitiless heartbreaker, " critic Michael Dirda calls her, she toys with Miss M ., whose passions are awakened to such a pitch that today s readers may be astonished at the avowals not of girlish friendship but of passionate longing.
- Michael Dirda of " The Washington Post " complimented Barbery, saying, " Certainly, the intelligent Muriel Barbery has served readers well by giving us the gently satirical, exceptionally winning and inevitably bittersweet " Elegance of the Hedgehog " . " Caryn James of " The New York Times " hailed the novel as " studied yet appealing commercial hit ", adding that it " belongs to a distinct subgenre : the accessible book that flatters readers with its intellectual veneer ".
- Michael Dirda, asked in 2007 what his favorite recent book was, named " the four-part sequence by John Crowley called'Aegypt .'" On reviewing the completed sequence in 2008, Dirda declared that the four novels together " confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period . " In an appreciation of Crowley's " Little, Big " in 2000, James Hynes called the then-unfinished sequence " an astonishing accomplishment " comparing it to works by Robertson Davies and Thomas Mann.