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In the hands of writers like John Updike, Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, this sort of bourgeois existence has provided the makings of a compelling fictional world.

The comparison was meant to be unflattering, as the sensation school – despite its sophistication in the hands of writers such as Braddon and Wilkie Collins – was felt by the Victorian literary establishment to lack both moral and aesthetic legitimacy.

Hollywood did play an increasing role in shaping Custer's memory as the twentieth century proceeded, particularly as that memory began to suffer at the hands of writers seeking to debunk the story of his heroism as a mythic fallacy.

In the hands of writers like Samuel Pufendorf (1991 [1673], p. 84), First Occupancy theory proceeded on the basis that the first human user of a natural resource a piece of land, for example—is distinguished from all others in that he did not have to displace anyone else in order to take possession.

I remember walking away from the second episode thinking, "We are in the hands of writers who are about to turn our ideas of what we think about this culture, this world, on its head".

But watching TV for long-term character arcs can be very rewarding, particularly if you're in the hands of writers who keep an eye on the characters in a way that keeps them more or less consistent".

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Stevenson's story gets a makeover in the hands of writer and director Jonathan Holloway.

Not so in the hands of writer Peter Bowker, echoes of whose Marvellous I still stand and applaud.

Rightly so: in the hands of writer Sarah Phelps an immensely subtle job was achieved, with just the right mix of bling, bish-bosh and heartache.

I'll be back anon, sad to say, but I'll leave you in the hands of writer, sports editor, and general all-round Renaissance man James Dart.

"Play the Devil". A familiar coming-out, coming-of-age narrative gets an unexpected jolt in the hands of writer-director Maria Govan.

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