His longing for her will make him abandon the table of his own widowed mother, and in Füsun's company he will come to know Istanbul with a new depth and intimacy.
Simply hop on your web cam and record a one minute video telling him to stay the course (or if you're of the more devious persuasion, feel free to taunt him with a cell phone and attempt to make him abandon his futile task mwahaha).
No amount of money would make him abandon his stand that a Canadian oil company had no right to force him to give up his land for an energy project that went against his value system, as described in this essay.
A chance meeting with Ibn Tūmart, a Berber religious reformer, made him abandon this idea and begin his brilliant career.
Bonavena… Bustos Domecq here sets down an account of the events that made him abandon his former life, move to a hotel under the name Aquiles….
The túngara, a brown-backed, white-bellied creature scarcely bigger than the last joint of his thumb, made him abandon adaptationist thinking, he says.
In interviews, Bolaño never dwelled on the bitterness that must have attended this decision, but the tragic thrust of "The Savage Detectives" suggests that he never forgave the world for making him abandon his first love.
Bustos Domecq here sets down an account of the events that made him abandon his former life, move to a hotel under the name Aquiles Silberman, and reflect seriously on the relation of the mind and body.
The New Yorker, February 14 , 1970 P. 34Bustos Domecq here sets down an account of the events that made him abandon his former life, move to a hotel under the name Aquiles Silberman, and reflect seriously on the relation of the mind and body.
I had worked in Passard's kitchen a decade ago, at a time when he was slow-cooking immense sides of veal and lamb, and I had always wanted to go back and inquire about the conversion experience that had made him abandon meat for vegetables.
