Sentence examples for by chick from inspiring English sources

There is something intensely dialectical about history being made by chick lit.

He's been called "dazzling" by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and "a creative genius" by Chick Corea.

For Lynn Harris, a creator of the BreakupGirl.net Website, and author of the forthcoming novel "Death by Chick Lit," being an only child meant she occupied a "Raggedy Ann-themed spot at the center of the universe".

Beau Jack made his pro debut in May 1940 and fought most of his early bouts in Holyoke, Mass., while managed by Chick Wergeles, a New York City publicity man, who would take him to the Garden.

But Modern Jacobite is his most ambitious journey yet, centred on an intricately woven three-movement symphonic work inspired by the Jacobite uprisings; it is bookended by a rapturous tenor-sax improvisation on Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, and by Chick Corea's famous Children's Songs interleaved with Smith's own Bairn's Songs as personal variations on the same theme.

Compelling as many of these mini-portraits might be, they do not sustain the narrative of this novel, which increasingly devolves into a looping and repetitious monologue by Chick, chronicling Ravelstein's declining health and enumerating his own medical complaints and Herzogian problems with women.

This is the classic defence, invoked not just by chick-lit authors but magazine editors, luxury goods advertisers, reality TV producers and so on.

It's like an oddly shaped inner-city park, bounded not only by chick-lit and thriller but by the modernism it aspires to.

Chick-fil-A has faced angry words from some mayors, including Thomas M. Menino of Boston and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, who have been incensed by Chick-fil-A's donations to groups that fight same-sex marriage.

Corporations can now formally sponsor like-minded candidates, and a fast-food chain known for its evangelical bent backs her, leading to bumper stickers and T-shirts that say: "Bachmann 2020, Brought to You by Chick-fil-A".

Yet although Lindsay points out that "there have been a few employees who do not like the overtly Christian ethos of Chick-fil-A," he does not mention that at least 12 lawsuits charging employment discrimination have been filed against the company; nor does he discuss the rigorous, but also intrusive, practices used by Chick-fil-A to ward off such suits.