But this new stage version of some of the author's aimed-at-adults Tales of the Unexpected at the Lyric Hammersmith strikes me as more than a couple of shudders short of the full Dahl.
What is the author's aim?
They could only be called successful, however, if their author's aim was merely to intrigue, and it is impossible to believe that Carter is that crude.
Cooking here is an enjoyable act, perhaps one even worthy of a certain "love"; and the author's aim is to help you cook nicer food, every day.
Little has not been covered before, but then the author's aim is not to revolutionise but to aggregate, synthesise and communicate a host of useful ideas.
Its author's aim was to render the bald and abstract Greek prose of Epicurus into Latin hexameters at a time when Latin had no philosophic vocabulary.
The author's aim was to develop a research tool for non-destructive investigation of space arrangement of crystallites in the near-surface areas of structural elements and materials of gradient or laminar structure.
Harold and Erica are not that interesting, and they do get in the way of Mr Brooks's otherwise intriguing argument.The author's aim is to show how recent research has illuminated the complex processes of the brain.
Here the author's aims seem to shift in the course of the novel, which at times seems very close to nonfiction: the Garner-like protagonist, attending a writers' festival in Sydney, observes, in apparent reference to J. M. Coetzee, how "the big names had scrambled to see the Nobel laureate get his Australian citizenship in a tent".
The author's aim was to show that there was an important role for autistic children to play in the world, and this engaging novel, featuring a boy who holds the key to a horrific crime, succeeds admirably in her uplifting intention.
In essays, letters, reporting, and narratives of travels, the author's aim is often not to overpower his readers by giving them the impression that he knows exactly where he is leading them, as a dramatist or a detective-story writer does.
