Criticism aside, she represents a down-to-earth, fact-oriented style.
And there's no question that its ingredients sum up an American artistic self-image in a nutshell: think-big aspirations, down-to-earth facts, and the hope for a home fire, a quick prayer and a good yarn at the end of the road.
Earth Sciences: Fact or Fiction?
But it is a good play that would be even better if, like Frayn's Democracy, it rooted fictional dilemmas in the strong earth of fact.
She was not, as one Parisian publication once wrote, raised in a "miserable hut of dried earth". In fact, her well-to-do family included a physician and a judge.
They offer a powerful argument that the earth is, in fact, extremely unusual.
LIFE ON Earth is a fact, although we don't know where and how it began.
Some say the meek will inherit the earth but in fact it will be the young.
In other news, meanwhile, scientists declared that the earth was in fact round and orbited the sun.
The earth has in fact been considerably warmer in the past, and the best evidence suggests that higher levels of carbon dioxide were a central reason.
The techniques, too, felt down to earth, despite the fact that decorators are genetically coded to advise people that do-it-yourself equals disaster.
