"She was a tiny spinster with firm convictions about which books were fit to read," E. B. White wrote.
Almost two decades before Margaret Thatcher became liberal Britain's No1 hate figure there was another woman with firm convictions and an even firmer hairdo who inspired almost as much progressive revulsion.
"How can I be 50," he reflects at one point, "when I only just began?" Reading Linda Grant (whose previous novel, "The Clothes on Their Backs," was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize) is like spending time in the company of a smart, sharp-tongued friend with firm convictions.
A13 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Next Council Speaker Will Be a Trailblazer Councilwoman Christine C. Quinn, set to be elected today as the next speaker of the New York City Council, confronts Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg with a strong-willed opponent with firm convictions, but also one who is welcomed by the administration as a straightforward adversary.
Back then, Sipchen learned that Preis was a national authority with firm convictions but a civil nature, even if he disagreed with you.
The pollster, however, will register it as having the same validity as the response of someone with a firm conviction on the issue.
But the 71 immigrants, who arrived in June with the firm conviction that they were descended from one of the biblical lost tribes of Israel, feel they have completed a spiritual homecoming.
This historical finding, however, does not state that appellants' fears as to future disruptions are groundless; there, the court indicated the opposite: "On conflicting expert opinion evidence we are left with no firm conviction that an association of inmates is necessarily good or bad..
"With Jason," said Ms. Dewhurst, "I could make the commitment to O'Neill that allowed me, as Josie Hogan, to step off the edge of the cliff and into an abyss with the firm conviction that there was solid ground around me, in the words, in the actors onstage with me and, of course, in our director, Jose".
As she goes on to document, the unceasing declarations from Trump that he was out to ban Muslims because followers of Islam "hate us," as he put it, one comes away with the firm conviction that no one could rationally see that this was anything other than an order intended to give voice to his anti-Muslim bigotry.
