| 单词 | Muriel Spark |
| 例句 | That strain again ... a youthful Muriel Spark around the time of her resignation from the Poetry Society. Poetry Society: when Muriel Spark flew 2011-07-28T15:22:00Z Some friends considered the account intrusive; in letters to friends, Muriel Spark accused Bayley of “muckraking” and writing a “sordid” account. Writer John Bayley, Iris Murdoch's widower, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z If you are going to read one book before you visit Edinburgh, let it be the unparalleled “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” by Muriel Spark. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The story of an eccentric Scottish schoolteacher with pro-fascist tendencies originated as a novel by Muriel Spark. Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z I’m going to have to say Muriel Spark. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Muriel Spark lived long enough to write an online diary for Slate and to be entranced by television coverage of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z Muriel Spark, who has been shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker prize. Spark tipped for Lost Booker 2010-03-25T14:40:00Z The country had a huge literary heritage, but only Muriel Spark was producing contemporary literature, hardly any of it actually set in Scotland. Scotland should not be wasting time on blaming the English any more 2012-12-21T19:00:00Z The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark: Office worker Lise "leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime". Dame Muriel up for 'lost' Booker 2010-03-25T14:17:00Z This is a set for an imaginary version of Muriel Spark's 1963 novella The Girls of Slender Means. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z Muriel Spark and Arthur Miller explore the creation of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “The Crucible,” respectively. Sunday Reading: Literary Inspiration 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z I console myself that writing two books a year gave Muriel Spark hallucinations. The book launch letdown 2011-08-23T10:26:59Z In this way they avoid the great pitfall of the grief memoir: using the dead as "writing meat", Muriel Spark's sanguine expression for the cannibalising instincts of the writer. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z She can resemble a character out of Muriel Spark’s fiction, a thwarted girl of slender means who becomes an unlikely heroine. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Would "The Informed Air," a new posthumous essay collection by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark be able to attract the same number of buyers? What Amazon's e-book numbers are and aren't telling you 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z I would be a mute host, listening intently to the conversation between Muriel Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Muriel Spark was a complicated and sometimes savage character, and he gets that side of her personality across without ostentatiously grinding an ax. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z The last really good book was “A Far Cry From Kensington,” by Muriel Spark, also a reread. Kate Atkinson: By the Book 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The Driver's Seat, like so many of Muriel Spark's books, is slight in its length and vast in its implications. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z It is true that there have been eight male and only three female winners – Lessing, Bainbridge and Muriel Spark. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z In the 1950s people talked about the Angry Young Men – and I was grateful for the emergence of Iris Murdoch's philosophical games, Muriel Spark's elegance, The Golden Notebook. Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z A performance of holiday stories by Seattle actors, including "The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley, "The H Street Sledding Record" by Ron Carlson and "The Seraph and the Zambesi" by Muriel Spark. The Week Ahead: Christmas TV and stage shows are Seattle-area highlights 2010-12-15T23:52:13Z Book choice: Muriel Spark nominated her old high school library for a cash award in 1997. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z A few expressed relief that Muriel Spark's many fans hadn't voted for one of her weaker books as a matter of misguided faith. Lost and found: why JG Farrell's Troubles deserved its belated Booker win hands-down 2010-05-21T11:07:00Z The original event – notorious for its passionate exchanges between writers – was attended by such figures as Rebecca West, Muriel Spark and Mary McCarthy. China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books 2012-08-21T18:15:42Z Of Muriel Spark: “She is a bag fumbler.” His Roman Holiday Lasted a Lifetime 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Martin Stannard’s “Muriel Spark: The Biography,” alas, exists in the real world. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z Unsurprisingly, the real impetus to the Catholic novel's mid-century rise was provided by converts: Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and, slightly later, Muriel Spark. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The years of hard work made Muriel Spark the writer she was, but they also, this book suggests, made her hard. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z This was the choice of a past student, Muriel Spark in 1997. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z And sometimes, when I feel myself getting soft, I read Muriel Spark — a cold-martini splash of quick, uncompromising prose onto my sickly, flaccid writing face. Cathleen Schine Writes Fiction. But She Prefers Not to Read It at Work. 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z That's not to say Galloway carries the pains of the memoirs around: like her heroine, Muriel Spark, she enthuses that life just "gets better and better". A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z Yet surely rubbing elbows with the likes of White, Muriel Spark and Charles Addams, and making the scene at A-list literary cocktail parties wasn't worth two decades of lower-rung clerical work. 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z Both the judges on the panel for the Elysian Prize and the hopeful authors of submitted books are sent up here with a light, wicked hand reminiscent at once of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark. Edward St. Aubyn’s ‘Lost for Words’ 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z With a writer like Muriel Spark or Angela Carter, consciousness of artifice allows for an admittance of artifice. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z Like Muriel Spark’s fiction, “The Informed Air” offers the reader considerable pleasure, but also frequently delivers something more. Michael Dirda reviews “The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark” But when Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and Edna O'Brien rose to fame, Manning's resentment shifted as she brooded over their celebrity and press coverage. Why were they getting so much attention? Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z Muriel Spark recalls her early years at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, in Edinburgh, and writes about the teacher who inspired “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Sunday Reading: School Drama 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Now, though, Muriel Spark is Edinburgh’s most famous daughter. How Muriel Spark Came Home to Scotland 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The class pyramid of British literature More top stories Lost Booker prize shortlist overlooks Iris Murdoch but plumps for Muriel Spark Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires? Spark tipped for Lost Booker 2010-03-25T14:40:00Z I did my PhD on Muriel Spark, the most intellectually demanding writer I know; there is no finer surgeon of the human heart than her. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z The last book that made me laugh Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means, which is full of brilliant zingers, and Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times, which has some of the same incisive wit. David Nicholls: 'Gifting books feels like changing the music at someone else’s party' 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z There’s a Muriel Spark short story, You Should Have Seen the Mess, in which a woman’s revulsion from disorder and dirt signals her pathological detachment. The fight to clear Johnny Depp’s name exposes an altogether nastier agenda | Catherine Bennett 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The 100th anniversaries of the birth of Nelson Mandela and Scottish author Muriel Spark will also be marked. Edinburgh Book Festival line-up revealed 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Before he became the best-selling author of the Inspector Rebus novels, Ian Rankin spent three years researching a PhD on one of the Scotland's other great novelists, Dame Muriel Spark. Ian Rankin on the Creme de la Creme of Scottish novelists 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z It was a joke in our family that my mother and Muriel Spark’s great fictional creation, Miss Jean Brodie, shared a certain temperament, as well as a profession that was really a vocation. Lessons from My Mother 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z “High Dive,” even with Moose on the springboard, is actually the least vertiginous of Lee’s books, the one least concerned with seeing the cosmic joke from a cosmic distance in the manner of Muriel Spark. The Plot to Blow Up Margaret Thatcher 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z She isn’t afraid of it, like Muriel Spark; nor does she insist its depictions rouse us to action, like Sontag. Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z And Curriculum Vitae, Muriel Spark’s autobiography – been meaning to read this for years. Best holiday reads 2015 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Reading Muriel Spark's brilliant Aiding and Abetting, in which a comically mediocre Lord Lucan encounters his devilish double, one wondered if it might be just enough to flush out the reclusive baronet. From Scarlett Johansson to Tony Blair to the Queen: the noble tradition of writing real people into novels 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Boasting noteworthy Scottish voices from the past and present, the list includes contributions from those who have become internationally renowned such as Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh, Muriel Spark and Alasdair Gray. Search on for Scotland's best book 2013-10-31T00:23:44Z Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch were among the shortlisted authors, and the judges’ panel included Frank Kermode and Stephen Spender. Keep America Out! 2013-09-16T14:05:23Z Located somewhere on the spectrum between Patricia Highsmith and Flannery O'Connor, she has the most in common with a British novelist: Muriel Spark. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z Our first piece is a review of a new biography of the fascinating Muriel Spark by Maud Newton, one of our favorite writers on books. Borders files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 2011-02-16T13:35:00Z Lawmakers poised for showdown on legislation Divide over West Bank road Obama meets with Billy Graham Greece: Progress on finance deal Martin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark. Do Women Hate Their Bodies More Than Men Do? 2010-04-25T19:47:00Z Muriel Spark was loyal to notebooks supplied by James Thin in Edinburgh; write in a Moleskine from Paris and the ghost of Bruce Chatwin or Hemingway might breathe into your pen. An unauthorised history of Smythson's 2010-03-27T00:12:00Z |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。