Sentence examples for one's subject from inspiring English sources
In an age of daunting, monumental psychobiography, this is where a lifelong intellectual bandit-trickster like Bellow can stake his claim: truth comes not through piling up fact and piling on one's subject in a hefty 700 pages but via the selective imagination and burnished sentences of an accomplished novelist.
He wonders why more great writers don't write about nature instead of tying themselves to the uneventful world of men & concludes that when writing about animals one has to know one's subject.
Twenty years later, the conventions of biography were considerably altered, frank discussion of the sex life of one's subject being well on its way to becoming de rigueur for biographers.
A previous biographer, Robert Speaight, who had published in the mid-60s, had seen the same material, but MacCarthy, as she has pointed out, was writing in 1989, well after Michael Holroyd's ground-breaking life of Lytton Strachey, so that "the conventions of biography were considerably altered, frank discussion of the sex life of one's subject being well on its way to becoming de rigueur".
Finally, I disagree that it's necessarily helpful to have known one's subject personally.
Diversity is not dominant; orientation on the (immanent and narrow) logic of one's subject area is king.
Whether or not one likes one's subjects, she said, "honest criticism involves a level of separation," one she claims to stringently observe.
Mr. Jedrowski said his course would have been greatly improved if "one could choose one's subjects more freely and in accordance to one's genuine interests".
There is a price for that, and it comes in treating one's subjects with greater care than if they were made up.
Room to maneuver in these quarters is severely limited, and one's subjects, many of whom are engaged in the high drama of commuting to work, often react to an interrupting presence with audible hostility.
For his doctorate, Regeni was engaged in what is known as "participatory research" – a method that involves spending substantial amounts of time in the field with one's subjects.
