Sentence examples for Two invented from inspiring English sources

Second, "Exit Ghost" is conducting an intertextual conversation with "The Ghost Writer," and both novels concern not one but two invented writers (Zuckerman and E. I. Lonoff).

Some experts cite William A. Higinbotham's Tennis for Two, invented in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, as the first interactive computer game.

David Fallows, the dictionary's early-music editor and a Guardian reviewer, also contributed the entry entitled Spoof Articles, citing two invented composers who appeared in the 1980 edition.

The novel links Brighton and Belfast, moving between Dan and two invented characters, Moose, the hotel's deputy manager, and his daughter Freya, working as a receptionist while deciding what to do with the her life.

DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON knew a great deal about the English language, spoke it wittily and wrote it in quadrupedantic polygrammata - silly long pseudo-classical words, that is, some of them (like those two) invented for the occasion.

Well, aren't we just two peas in a long-winded, Russian pod?" A bond will subsequently form based upon the fictitious life that these two invented personalities could share.

Unfortunately, her synthesis of the two -- "Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies" -- incorporates just about every authorial tic and self-absorbed mannerism that afflicts far too much American nonfiction these days.

Louis Braille, who was blinded at the age of three, invented the system in 1824 while a student at the Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children), Paris.

"Where has he brought me, that Lucifer?" he asked, referring to one of three invented characters, along with Eve and Michael, who regularly figure in his works.

According to Harkup, when it came to poisons, "Christie invariably played with a straight bat": no untraceable poisons, no implausible sourcing, and just three invented drugs, only one of which was used to kill.

It turned out to be an enlightened suggestion.Douglass's method of building was one invented by his father, Nicholas, on another lighthouse in the 1860s (and used long afterwards in British lighthouses).