Sentence examples for Sexton from inspiring English sources
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A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
Sexton has never witnessed a white-tailed eagle actually seize a lamb.
Mull rumours say cat collars are found in nests ("a complete fabrication," says Sexton – the eagles do snatch feral cats, which does all wildlife a favour).
"It was a life-changing moment, really," says Sexton.
Critics also claim the eagles wipe out eider ducks (mink is the culprit, corrects Sexton) and Irish hares (another misconception, says Sexton: hare numbers have fallen partly because of disease).
Sexton studies leftovers found in white-tailed eagles' nests: these include everything from hedgehogs to herons, and the occasional lamb.
Sexton has watched the eagles ignore lambs in favour of apparently more difficult catches.
He was soon a clapper boy, first on the crime drama After Dark (1932), directed by Albert Parker, and then worked his way up to assistant camera operator on films such as Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle (1935).
He was a planter, not a lord, and had views which were so democratic they were considered excessive by more-conservative thinkers like John Adams.Jack Sexton SydneySIR – Lexington said the constitution provided no answer to the question of whether gays should marry.
In fact, the more mysterious figure in the drama is her husband and fellow-poet, Ted Hughes, whose infidelity catapulted her towards suicide, and who, according to this new book, spent the next 30-odd years of his life haunted by his dead wife.Diane Middlebrook, who 12 years ago wrote a psychological biography of the confessional poet Anne Sexton, is well qualified to take on Mr and Mrs Hughes.
Such 20th-century poets as John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton wrote poetry in the confessional vein, revealing intensely personal, often painful perceptions and feelings.
Lowell's new work influenced nearly all American poets but especially a group of "confessional" writers, including Anne Sexton in To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) and All My Pretty Ones (1962) and Sylvia Plath in the posthumously published Ariel (1965).
