He then joined the incipient conservative writers' group formed by the Post, which in 1974 began syndicating his columns nationwide.
In addition to Frost, whose vanity and callousness Hall mollifies with moments of bona fide poignance, we meet Frost's father, a mercurial San Francisco newspaperman with a "paper-white face, blue below the eyes, the red coins in his cheeks not a sign of health," as well as his mother, a "Swedenborgian blessed with second sight, patient wife, incipient lunatic, embryonic writer".
The excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii attracted foreign visitors, while, in a climate of Neoclassicism and incipient Romanticism, artists, writers, and scholars arrived to experience the Neapolitan ambience.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848 and unofficially reinforced a decade later, was founded as a group of painters but also functioned as a school of writers who linked the incipient Aestheticism of Keats and De Quincey to the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle.
In the past, particularly in his stunningly suspenseful "Drama City" (2005) and "The Night Gardener" (2006), Mr. Pelecanos, now also a television writer and producer, constructed these incipient moral tragedies with delicacy and care, even though he was already busy working on "The Wire" by then.
Already a largely forgotten figure by the 1950s, she had spent her final days in a nursing home, where (so the story goes) her insistence that she had once been a famous writer was taken as a symptom of incipient senile dementia.
Crippled by writer's block, and perhaps hamstrung by the incipient insanity that would plague her career, Plath bakes enormous quantities of cakes.
For environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben, all this adds up to an incipient mass movement against the continued consumption of fossil fuels.
The doctors diagnosed incipient schizophrenia.
