Beloved of all his family, tireless and passionate worker for his country, avid cyclist, U.S. Navy pilot, possessed of great decency and a memorable sense of humor.
He was capable of enormous wit, and his writing is suffused with a memorable sense of humour, a lightness that seduces us into his immensely serious topics.
What was missing in this revival of Adolf Dresen's 1987 production was not eye-opening music-making but just what made the "Parsifal" so memorable: a sense of the drama's stakes.
The structure of the novel - the events of its first part compulsively recollected in the following three parts - makes the hot, suffocating days of its opening seem to belong to another time: distant, past, yet palpably there in the memorable, inescapable sense of the weather.
For all their formal inventiveness and play of ideas, his novels remain memorable for the sense they give of their author's personal memories and passions.
In Julian Barnes's elegant, playful, and wholly memorable novella "The Sense of an Ending," noted this week in the magazine, Tony Webster, divorced and retired, confronts the imperfections of memory as he recalls his youth in sixties-era England.
What's most memorable is the sense of a mischievous, restlessly modern, subversively female spirit haunting the museum, transgressing boundaries, tweaking the furniture and teasing into surprised wakefulness the too-often musty patriarchal house of art.
By The New Yorker October 3, 2011 In Julian Barnes's elegant, playful, and wholly memorable novella "The Sense of an Ending," noted this week in the magazine, Tony Webster, divorced and retired, confronts the imperfections of memory as he recalls his youth in sixties-era England.
It's not hard to glean from Wojtowicz's hard-as-nails mother, Terry, one of the film's more memorable figures, a sense of exasperation regarding her devoted son's crazy life.
Our visit was memorable in two senses: the adorable sight of nine furry puppies suckling from one beleaguered mother, and the appalling smell of those same nine puppies pooping all over a holding pen set up in a small laundry room.
Mr. Feltsman's performance of "Carnaval" was more memorable, with a cohesive sense of the work's overall architecture.
