His romantic attachment to this once great Mediterranean city draws from him both his finest prose and his deepest insights.
The admission was drawn from him at the outset of a slashing cross-examination which lasted two hours and will continue all next week.
But the danger about overtly politicising Beckett is that you ruin all the connotations that other people might draw from him.
Yet while his death will cast a long and emotive shadow over the current Liberal Democrat leadership contest, it's too crude to draw from him the lesson that the party succeeds simply by tacking relentlessly left.
But, though Francis made tempting promises, the electors, in the end, opted for Charles not, however, without drawing from him a 36-point "electoral capitulation" in which he swore to uphold the estates' prerogatives.
For now, baguette revivalists -- spurred in part by Mr. Kaplan's notion of bread as the epitome of both French history and culture -- draw from him moral strength and culinary rigor.
Composers of Mr. Welser-Möst's native Austria seem to draw from him a special affection and fluency, so it's good that he arrives next week bearing Brahms (the First Symphony and the "Academic Festival Overture") as well as the New York premiere of a work by Chen Yi. 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212 247-7800, $33 to $116.
Refusing to admit his guilt, Peacham was tortured on the rack, but "before torture, between torture and after torture; nothing could be drawn from him".
In fact, something about the LACMA commission seems to have drawn from him a new interest in organic and undulating lines, a sweeping aesthetic that recalls the work of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and the artist Jean Arp.
