The echoes of Housman - another classicist, controversialist and poet - were too audible.
To many he was also the most fascinating: a wartime intelligence officer, obsessive controversialist, brilliant prose stylist, habitué of country houses and high society, and, in the last analysis, a tragic failure.Trevor-Roper never quite wrote the great work of history that was expected of him.
Or a controversialist who was hardly publicity-averse?If the answer to each of these questions is at least partly yes, that may mean no more than that Mr Godley was a man of several talents, many interests and an intelligence to make good use of them.
Government oversees "bloated bureaucracies and frenzied initiatives", and the opposition Tories can be as "sanctimoniously utopian" as New Labour.Some of this is the bile of a practised controversialist.
TO SHOW that you are up to speed on global warming, you need to know your Rio summit from your Kyoto protocol; your Greenland pump from your carbon sink; and your Harald Sverdrup (a Norwegian oceanographer, who measured sea currents) from your Bjorn Lomborg (a Danish controversialist, who annoys greens).
Mr Skwirczynski claims that an increasing number of them support Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a Polish right-wing controversialist and MEP.Both men loathe the EU.
The competition will be loaded because the book about Mary McCarthy was written, for the most part, by an editor at the NewYorker, while the Sylvia Plath book, being her journals, was written entirely by Sylvia Plath.As a critic, controversialist and writer of fiction, McCarthy 1912-899) was a prominent figure in the political and intellectual world of mid-century America.
Enlivening the debate, George Galloway, an anti-American controversialist and MP for Bradford West, made his usual ranted contribution, denouncing the putative British intervention and America's ongoing operations.
The sight of the country's tough law against Nazi propaganda being used to convict a posh British controversialist serves, if nothing else, to distract attention from lingering unresolved questions about the country's past.
He has proved himself an eager controversialist in several scientific fields, but here he seems unable to submit religion to the same rigorous questioning that he has applied elsewhere in his work.
Attacking revelation, the freethinking polemicist Anthony Collins (1676 1729) maintained that the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible Old Testamentt) failed of fulfillment; and the religious controversialist Thomas Woolston (1670 1733) urged that the New Testament miracles, as recorded, are incredible.
