After an abortive attempt at writing a dissertation on gestalt psychology, Horkheimer, with Cornelius's direction, completed his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation titled The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment.
Cohen's abortive attempts to write the book he is supposed to be ghostwriting are reproduced at ineffably tedious length.
When Wharton, in her autobiography, tells the story of her first, abortive attempt to write a novel, she suggests that her mother's dismissive remarks sent her storytelling self scurrying into a hole for almost thirty years.
Rossen, who had hustled pool himself as a youth and who had made an abortive attempt to write a pool-themed play called Corner Pocket, optioned the book and teamed with Sidney Carroll to produce the script.
During the abortive attempts at stand-up, he kept writing about the fictional horror author Garth Marenghi with Matthew Holness, which proved his breakthrough: not only did the second Marenghi stage show win the Perrier Award and a contract with Channel 4, but while performing it at Edinburgh, he met Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh.
21 February The ghostwriter of Assange's abortive 2011 autobiography, Andrew O'Hagan, writes an article about how his relationship with the WikiLeaks founder broke down.
Gareth Peirce, one of the defending solicitors in the abortive trial that followed, wrote in the Guardian in 1985: "Orgreave … revealed that in this country we now have a standing army available to be deployed against gatherings of civilians whose congregation is disliked by senior police officers.
Second, because I've not judged a books prize before, and third, because reading what will (with any luck) be the best romantic writing of the year will be a treat (and may even – unlikely, this – help me with my own abortive attempt at the genre…) The term "romantic fiction" is obviously applicable to all sorts of writing: what is, say, Atonement, if not romantic?
He was able to incorporate into it the final movement ("Libera me") that he had written for the abortive Rossini mass.
"A coup de repos long overdue," he says of one passive move by white; "the flag of distress," he exclaims of another; "the ingenuity of despair," he writes after an abortive attempt at a queen sacrifice.
