The Wire was informed by two books Simon wrote while he was still a journalist – The Corner, written with Ed Burns, an account of a year spent observing life on the street in west Baltimore, and Homicide, about a year he spent with the Baltimore police department.
Informed by our books and databases, in addition to the paces and rhythms of our local tides, regular visits from the box jellyfish and birds, and fueled by tropical fruit, our current offices look and feel different from those we knew in the past - and they must.
I sought that something down what now seems to me an eccentric path: an unorthodox but fervent, charismatic Catholicism, informed by a book of obnoxious sayings picked for no reason off of my grandfather's shelf.
In addition to her education, Steele says that her work is informed by illustration, films, books, and her gender identity. .
Romney said his cultural comparison -- denounced as "racist" by the Palestinian leadership -- was "informed" by Senor's book.
The Bread and Roses award for radical publishing – named after the slogan chanted in 1912 by striking textile workers in Massachusetts, who struck for "bread, and for roses too" – is looking for books "informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist and anti-racist concerns", which also "inspire, support or report on political and/or personal change".
Most people assume — especially those informed by portrayals in television, books and movies — that the United States doesn't execute people with severe mental illness.
Book tours are usually excruciating indignities as the interviewers are informed by reading from the book jackets, not the meat.
With "Explaining Hitler," he has written a book that does for Hitler studies what David Lehman's superb book "Signs of the Times" did for deconstruction: he has written an exciting, lucid book informed by two qualities in increasingly short supply in academic circles: old-fashioned moral rigor and plain old common sense.
