An ape lectures in exquisitely sophisticated sentences to a distinguished audience in Vienna, telling them his tragic history: since he was captured on the Gold Coast, he has been forced to set about learning human culture.
Tippett rejected such work as an unacceptable compromise with his principles and in June 1943, after several further hearings and statements on his behalf from distinguished musical figures, he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.
Achille Bazaine, (born Feb. 13, 1811, Versailles, Fr. died Sept. 28, 1888, Madrid) marshal of France who, after distinguished service during the Second Empire, was sentenced to death for his surrender of Metz and 140,000 men to the Germans on Oct. 27, 1870, during the Franco-German War.
Its distinguished feature is the time independence.
In a suitable context, such as a tense lunch James provides for the distinguished Lily Norton, Tóibín can strike off sentences with a Jamesian (or Austenesque) edge of dry, world-weary precision: He knew that Lily Norton would not be indelicate enough to mention the matter to anyone save her aunt Grace, who would be too interested in the news not to be fully deprived of it.
February 13 , 1811Versailles, France September 28, 1888 Madrid, Spain Achille Bazaine, (born Feb. 13, 1811, Versailles, Fr. died Sept. 28, 1888, Madrid) marshal of France who, after distinguished service during the Second Empire, was sentenced to death for his surrender of Metz and 140,000 men to the Germans on Oct. 27, 1870, during the Franco-German War.
IN the first clipped sentences of his current best seller, Michael Pollan, distinguished author and designated repository for the nation's food conscience, writes: "Eat food.
(Those sentences are wonderfully rendered in English by the distinguished translator Sverre Lyngstad).
The distinguished professors wisely proposed "routine administrative review of most long and life sentences," but recognized that we were likely light years away from such reforms.
"The meaning of the phrase 'human rights' is contested territory in modern Britain," writes the distinguished academic and occasional government human rights adviser professor Francesca Klug in the opening sentence of this book; it combines her earlier works on human rights with new commentaries, and represents a lifetime's work.
