There's a constant stream of mordant references to the bloody incursions of the Ottomans into Europe, and the enduringly obsessive martyr complex it caused among Serbians.
Of all the restless, well-born Englishmen who roamed the world throughout the 19th century, poking into darkest continents and leaving a gazeteer of English place names in their wake, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) remains one of the most complex and enduringly romantic.
Scholars vary widely in their views of his style, which has been described as "pretentious" and "almost impenetrable", but also as "poetic" and "as enduringly fascinating as it is complex".
In the view of historian David Woodman, "Æthelstan A" should "be accorded recognition as an individual author of no little genius, a man who not only overhauled the legal form of the diploma but also had the ability to write Latin that is as enduringly fascinating as it is complex .
On the other hand, Drögereit describes "Æthelstan A"'s style as having a "poetic quality", and Woodman describes him as an "author of no little genius, a man who not only overhauled the legal form of the diploma but also had the ability to write Latin that is as enduringly fascinating as it is complex".
Within weeks, the two had begun a complex, occasionally adulterous, often agonistic but enduringly loving relationship -- in which Turnbull also played the role of academic mentor and sponsor.
From the story of one complex relationship, Collin builds a resonant portrait of an enduringly influential scene and era.
This was the complex background to Ransome becoming the first Guardian journalist to write enduringly popular fiction.
Lucy emerges as the complex product of his diametrically different parents, his wisecracking Uncle Declan, his childhood years of stunted aspirations and an enduringly traumatic incident at a Thomaston railroad trestle.
He was enduringly superstitious.
Female sports were enduringly changed.
