While the new award's eligibility criteria have always, in their lack of the standard "no self-publishing" clause, implied an openness, the prize's administrator gave me positive confirmation in a recent email that their doors were indeed open.
Bacon's paintings gave me the confirmation of an idea that Bertolucci and I had about the conflict between the warm artificial light in a northern city like Paris during wintertime and the natural winter light.
Tom might have given nearly equal satisfaction if he'd written: "You are a lousy writer, but a writer nonetheless!" I had no one in those days giving me any confirmation that I was a writer at all besides myself, certainly not someone I regarded as one of the living titans of American fiction.
Instagram gave me a confirmation that this final find by Wong is officially in testing.
The doctor said that that was not going to happen, he gave me the confirmation that they would relieve his suffering.
The nice gentleman who signed me up in July gave me a 19-digit confirmation number, which filled three lines on a supersize Post-It.
"To play well at Augusta with the world's best players, and that's a golf course I've played well on in the past, it really sort of gave me a bit of confirmation that I've still got the game to compete".
I signed up for the event, which cost $25 (already a bad sign), and got a confirmation email giving me more details.
She gave a moving talk on resilience, highlighting all of the scientific research behind it, and I did an inner happy dance for the confirmation it gave me that I have been on the right track for the last few years as I spoke about resilience.
Give them regular confirmation, though, that you value and respect them as human beings.
It seemed to give muscular confirmation to Baylor's determination to win a national championship.
