Sentence examples for book devised from inspiring English sources

A few years later, now more a devotee of John Berger's Ways of Seeing (a TV series and book devised in hostile reaction to Civilisation), I began to feel decidedly uncomfortable with Clark's patrician self-confidence and the "great man" approach to art history – one damn genius after the next – that ran through the series.

Among his suggestions for selling your book: devise a creative marketing campaign, try one new tactic a day, and study the strategies used by successful self-publishers and imitate them.

But Aw's purpose, after devoting the first third of the novel to the vitriolic posthumous account outlined above, is to spend the rest of the book devising a complex, contradictory case for the rehabilitation of Johnny Lim.

The Way Back Home Successful children's operas are rarities, but English National Opera's latest venture, based on Oliver Jeffers's enchanting book and devised by Katie Mitchell and Vicki Mortimer with music by Joanna Lee, looks to have more going for it than most.

Then there are the game shows, watched on television by audiences even larger than those for films and manga books, and devised to expose their willing participants to humiliation bordering on sadism.Mr Fukasaku's contribution to Japan's carnival of cruelty was a series of extraordinary films made over a period of 40 years.

As one of the most successful graphic designers in early 20th-century Britain, or "commercial artists" as they were then called, Kauffer designed stage sets, illustrated books and devised a suitably spooky opening title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent thriller "The Lodger".

In "The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre," which Hoggett and Graham published in 2009, they reminisce tenderly about sets that collapsed in the middle of performances, falling on the actors' feet.

Theodor Adorno, in his book on Mahler, devised a set of metaphors based on the bourgeois novel; Sibelius is better served by metaphors from film.

Open-book managers devise scorecards and other tools that show staff how their individual efforts contribute to the bottom line.

To help differentiate between the books, Gopnik has devised three categories: the Never-Betters (the authors believe we're on the brink of an information utopia); the Better-Nevers (we'd be better off if the whole Internet thing never happened); and the Ever-Wasers (information upgrades are always happening and have been since time immemorial).

To promote the book, Mr. Bangle has devised a contest.