If Mr. Bennett's voice long ago lost the lustrous throb that made a recording like "Blue Velvet" an immersion in pure dreaminess, what has replaced it is a magisterial confidence and rhythmic ease, a transcendently vigorous appreciation of life stamped on every expertly turned phrase.
Shiva creates new life by stamping up a storm; Vishnu does it by lying down in a milky sea.
According to Coffin, the faith's two Biblical mandates are not preserving the sanctity of life and stamping out sin, as Jerry Falwell might have it, but, rather, the pursuit of justice and the search for peace.
Not only is he "one of Britain's most engaging TV journalists", but his time as a Mirror showbiz columnist saw "his larger than life personality stamp itself all over the paper".
A canvas life jacket stamped "Andrea Doria" and three lots with glass drinking vessels and third-class dinner plates with the "Italia" logo have estimates of up to $1,200 each.
Published or not, these teenagers, like generations of New Yorkers, will go through life indelibly stamped by the eternal bleacher that offers a front-row view of the street where they live.
Schindler's life was stamped by a lack of rigidity, a bohemianism and free-spiritedness that made him one of the more dynamic figures in the flourishing artistic scene in Los Angeles in the 1930's and 40's, when the city lured political émigrés from Europe fleeing Hitler.
My history, my life is stamped into my heart.
And in reading about Mexico's Day of the Dead, writes Ms. Karetnikova, Eisenstein found that "in Mexico, as nowhere else, life and death cross each other's path 'in the tragic images of death stamping out life, or in the sumptuous images of the triumph of life over death.' " So with financial backing put together by the wife of the noveliest Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein went to Mexico.
What patriotism meant to Orwell was the ordinary things of his English life — heavy coins, stamp collecting, dart games, an irrational spelling system.
