Sentence examples for habits of composition from inspiring English sources

The audience was clearly intrigued by Bainbridge's unusual habits of composition.

They did not; the poet Arthur Hugh Clough complained in 1852 that "Our own age is notorious for slovenly or misdirected habits of composition".

Among the scattered memoranda that form the basis of the book is this description of Jonson's nocturnal habits of composition: "He would many times exceed in drinke (Canarie was his beloved liquour); then he would tumble home to bed and, when he had thoroughly perspired, then to studie.

To write a tolerable book on most subjects is generally supposed to require some labour, some reflection, and some practised habits of composition, but when the subject is to describe a country or a nation, the public seems to suppose that everybody,—boys just out of college, ensigns in the guards, fine ladies, and titled boobies, can write a respectable book.

Clarence Miller's commentary on De Tristitia acknowledges Aquinas's Catena as a source upon which More "relies heavily" because it provides "the groundwork" of More's biblical exegesis.6 Yet Miller's subsequent analyses, like others', have not addressed how the Catena influences More's habits of composition.

Because Lincoln's habit of composition was to take a long time to work on something very slowly, to try out multiple versions on multiple readers or multiple listeners.

Few friendships could have borne the strain they put on theirs - by marrying sisters, for example; but among its quieter pressures was the fact that they encouraged in each other the worst habits of hasty composition.

Recent works on feeding habits of ungulates, isotopic composition of equid tooth enamel, and phytoliths from late Miocene localities of northern Greece suggested the presence of savannah and excluded dense forests.

Hamilton's borrowings, a perusal of the "charging ledgers" reveals, were relatively modest: despite his non-stop habits of work and composition, he found time to read, or anyway borrow, two novels, "The Amour of Count Palviano and Eleanora" and, as listed in the ledger, "Edward Mortimer (hist. of) by a lady".

Mr. Bernstein, who was born in Brooklyn and spent his teenage years on the Upper West Side, had developed the habit of improvising compositions for his piano teacher, Henriette Michelson, by the age of 13. "When she'd had quite enough of that, she took me to meet Aaron Copland, who had recently returned from France," he said.

Hard tissues include bone, cementum, dentine and enamel and contain a basic calcium phosphate mineral called apatite, or hydroxyapatite, named by geologists from the Greek word apate meaning deceive because of the variable crystal habit and composition of apatite rocks.