Sentence examples for burgess from inspiring English sources

Comment: Anyone who knows Burgess will be aware that he will not have taken this decision lightly.

So it was with some chagrin that we learned that English Heritage has turned Burgess down for a blue plaque on the house in Chiswick, west London, where he lived in the 60s.

So Burgess and his family concern have surely been doing something right down the years, have they not?

So many people were coming to Macromedia's site to download Shockwave, its animation-viewing software, that Mr Burgess realised he had accidentally achieved what others were spending huge sums to create: traffic.

As Cliff Burgess of Perimeter Institute, a Canadian theoretical-physics centre, puts it, "The dark energy business very easily degenerates into something like a crowd of people who are each claiming to be Napoleon while asserting that all the other pretenders are clearly nutty".

"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" (1963) was a huge success because Kim Philby defected in 1963, and 1961 had seen the Maclean and Burgess defections, so Le Carré was on the wave of these huge political incidents.

In common with many friends and colleagues, I am a great fan of the late Anthony Burgess, that gobsmackingly prolific author, critic and composer.

So obviously should have lowlife freaks such as Jimmy Savile, long ago described by Anthony Burgess as "the most evil man in Britain".

"In the last 18 months, the equity markets have done a 180-degree flip," says Anthony Burgess, head of European M&A at Deutsche Bank.

I have sat through a five-hour presentation ceremony in Manchester, where the prize was carried off by Anthony Burgess, then a spindly, elderly figure, who looked down at me from his great height, a cheque between thumb and finger, and said, "I expect you need this more than me," and there again I experienced a wicked but ungratified impulse, to snatch the cheque away and stuff it into my bra.

As Anthony Burgess put it, a novelist, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual, should not be too intelligent.