The Depression affected Steinbeck as war did Hemingway and exile did Nabokov: it changed his life and filled his work.
(Schapiro, for example, became an expert in Romanesque art, and Bernard Malamud filled his work with images of Catholic mercy and redemption).
(Chinen) Greg Ward Quartet (Friday) A versatile young saxophonist with a full plate of sideman activity, Greg Ward fills his work with nods to electronic music, postrock and other modern enticements.
The sense of things ugly in themselves — ugliness registered not defiantly but passively, as if nothing could be truly ugly — filled his work.
The war between men and women is his subject, and the Thurber dog is, so to speak, the third body in a three-body problem that fills his work.
"But instead of writing about socialist superheroes," Mr. Mo has filled his work with real characters, Mr. Hockx continued, while at the same time portraying rural China as a "magical place where wonderful things happened, things that seemed to come out of mythology and fairy tales".
In his smaller poetic works, Johnson relied on short lines and filled his work with a feeling of empathy, which possibly influenced Housman's poetic style.
A high-speed helicopter awaits in a nearby field to swoop William to England, and a colleague stands ready to fill his work shifts.
He filled his work with detail, and yet, somehow, the most important aspect of all of his work was always the overall mood, tone, and feeling of the piece.
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