However, the decision that an author's contempories make about his work, favorable or not, has never been final.
By 1944, he was writing to Edvard Beneš, the exiled president of Czechoslovakia, "I do not think I shall give up the home I have built here by the Pacific, the home which I have come to love and which is so favorable for my work".
In addition to his job at Le Soir, he was a reader at a publishing house, founded by a pro-Nazi Belgian, Lucienne Didier, that was devoted to bringing out works favorable to the Nazi regime.
At one point Suggs supervised a fleet of eighty-five plug-in elecarsc cars, which worked well in Florida's favorable "warm and flat" environment, ideal for battery technology, as he put it.
Reviews were overwhelmingly favorable, with critics praising the work's documentary veracity — exactly the dimension of the novel that Fitzgerald hoped readers would see beyond.
Rather than providing services for a fixed fee, as "Sweet Valley High" writers did, Alloy authors generally own a fifty-per-cent stake in their work; the terms can be more favorable in the case of a writer who is a proven best-seller, or less favorable when the writer is a novice.
There was evidence dating back to the Afghanistan war, the Ryder report said, that M.P.s had worked with intelligence operatives to "set favorable conditions for subsequent interviews" — a euphemism for breaking the will of prisoners.
Among the handful of people in his party was a Houston public-relations man, Jack Valenti, who had caught Johnson's attention a few years earlier by writing favorable newspaper columns about him, and who had worked with him on arrangements for a dinner tribute to the Houston congressman Albert Thomas.
The reception of his work by qualified judges was almost universally favorable.
Waugh says that Karl Wittgenstein was a chancer, whose enormous fortune owed as much to the favorable outcomes of his gambles as to his hard work and his skills.
For the most part, Rubenstein has received favorable press coverage, including widespread praise for his charitable work.
