Updike's subject, in his major fiction, was the life of middle-class American Wasps, and his early works were deliberate responses to writers who he thought had given up on that life, or who saw the world heading toward a brutal future.
That was deliberate by the writers, I know that, but it certainly made me uncomfortable.
He became a much more deliberate and consciously literary writer than most of his contemporaries at the magazine.
Such deliberate habits in a writer suggest a sort of performance, and Eco has enjoyed showing interviewers around the three studies where he works: one each devoted to reading, typing and writing by hand.
Pharoah's decision to locate the drama in 1894, though, feels like a deliberate homage to the writer MR James, the grandfather of the English literary chiller, for whom the late-Victorian era was a key period of creativity and settings for stories.
It allows writers to deliberate over word choice and to construct lists, tables, recipes, and indexes.
As the writer sat deliberating about whether she could afford them, she watched the Greenwich woman go to the cashier's desk.
In plays that move at a deliberate, restrained pace, these writers pose a necessary counterweight to the numbing quick-bite culture of distraction that seems to be engulfing us.
I asked Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, about this practice, which runs counter to the stereotype of tweedy and bespectacled editorial writers deliberating and arguing for long hours over the news in the morning paper for comment (at earliest) the next day.
The writers deliberated over the use of five or six monsters in trying to find one appropriate for the episode, but eventually settled on a trickster because it "can do everything [they] want it to".
