A common refrain in literary circles is that American poetry fails to speak of, or to, the life of the working man, even though the writing of masters like Philip Levine, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, B. H. Fairchild, Richard Hugo and, well, Bruce Springsteen is shot through with plenty of proletarian struggle and disillusionment.
My mother has called this book series, The Trail of Tears (laughs), because I started working on Next To The Gods when I was seventeen, but the odd thing is even though the writing changed dramatically, the title was always Next To The Gods.
The pronunciation of the word for "shake" — han, with a falling tone — is exactly the same as that for "guard," even though the written characters are different.
It is interesting to note that on the navigational charts of Admiral Zheng He, the routes were not drawn according to their accompanying compass directions even though the written navigational directions were accurate.
Starting in early 1889, the king repeatedly tried to disavow the document on the grounds of alleged deceit by the concessionaires regarding the settled terms; he insisted that restrictions on the grantees' activities had been agreed orally, and apparently considered these part of the contract even though the written text had been translated and repeatedly explained to him just before he signed it.
In English and French, it has also been found that word frequencies based on written texts explain a few percentages of extra variance in visual lexical decision data to those based on film subtitles, even though the written frequencies themselves are inferior to the subtitle frequencies.
Even though the written leaflet was well accepted by most of our patients, a minority of them found that the written document was either useless or difficult to understand.
If something is occurring in nature and cannot be changed, I'm afraid that it is natural, even though, as Somashekhar writes, "the overwhelming majority of adults, 96.6percentt, labeled themselves as straight in the 2013 survey".
And there is nothing in the genetic code of the medieval Yersinia that makes it inherently more lethal than modern strains, even though, as the scientists write, the epidemics they cause "have their origins in the medieval era".
Even though the story, written later in the evening, included information about the arrests and tear gas, no news images had moved by our production deadline, probably because Oakland is on Pacific time--a three-hour difference.
They have effortlessly reclaimed all the great authors who fled the country of their birth – Goldsmith, Joyce, Beckett – even though the latter wrote some of his greatest work in French, the language of his adopted country.
