Lest it gets overlooked, the letters page in today's Guardian carries this riposte, Guardian 'surrender' on self-regulation, to an editorial published on Friday, Leveson inquiry: prejudging the judge.
The older novelist's letter overlooked this well-informed and cogent critique, instead focusing (just like any other aggrieved celeb) on the misinformation about tweets and photo deals.
QVC, the leading home shopping channel, is making a bid to rebrand the often-overlooked letter, betting that it can make the sight of the letter Q elicit not a laugh nor an immediate search for a U, but a feeling of delicious anticipation.
In the distance I saw two towers bearing the letters G and M. The taxi driver pointed them out to me as if proudly showing me the ruins of a local monument, 'You see right there, that's General Motors!' On top of the steel and glass towers, the red and blue letters overlooked the down-at-heel city.
I suggested in reply that it was always possible for one letter to be overlooked, whereas 50 were bound to receive attention".
The clue to the letter's fraudulence, overlooked by its victim, was that it asked Dr. Crick to speak for as long as possible, Dr. Watson says, still racked with laughter at the memory.
A reader's letter, dated April 15 but overlooked at The Times until last week, points out that he was Creon, not Cleon.
Like poor Cinderella, who toiled in obscurity until her prince recognized her as a diamond in the rough, such species are aesthetically appealing but have so far been overlooked, the researchers write in Conservation Letters.
Excerpt from a letter from an outfit called Presto, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin: If for some reason this letter becomes lost in the mails or we have overlooked supplying your want we will appreciate your returning this letter to us with full information concerning the cooker you have".
Posterity lifted the author of Moby-Dick to the ranks of America's greatest writers, but he was overlooked in his own time, many of his letters and manuscripts are lost and there is much that remains open to conjecture.
His importance as a privy councillor and statesman has often been overlooked, one reason being that many of his letters are scattered among private collections and not easily accessible in print, as are those of his colleagues Walsingham and Cecil.
