Sentence examples for old authors from inspiring English sources

He will quote you a nice point in the old authors, from Plato to Plautus and back again.

But most of the "old" authors had in common a notion of Nature as belonging to the cast of characters of a novel.

He is 72 now and has a contract with Random House to edit some of his old authors, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Jane Jacobs, Elaine Pagels, Helen Prejean and others, including Richard Holbrooke and David Remnick.

So the Man Booker 2008 longlist is out, and speaking as a judge, I would like to say that it is, in my humble opinion, a mighty fine list: a fair spread of young and old authors, established and first-timers, and subject matter as various as Soviet Russia and contemporary Australia.

He feared, according to [Elizabeth ] Eisenstein that the minds of men "flighty and curious of anything new" would be distracted from "the study of old authors".

We hope that through our efforts, we will to some extent be able to enact the word set forth in Hyrtl's motto (translated from German original): "The opinions of old authors are not valid any more and their historical research is held to be superfluous.

"I've heard it all," replies Studs Terkel, the crusty old author of Working and other social anthologies.

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However, it seems to be of little doubt that, even in these two cases, not the venerable older authors but Shakespeare's masterpieces provided the original inspiration.

I think Spender, in his Horizon essay, went a bit far in intimating that many older authors have surrendered themselves completely to alcoholism.