Sentence examples for paradise himself from inspiring English sources

Fresh off the back of a summer of smashing it in Ibiza, Croatia, and, well, to be honest, everywhere, Mr Paradise himself Jamie Jones has found some time to rustle up the goods in the studio.

According to Greek myth, it came into being as the private love nest of Poseidon, god of the sea, who struck off a section of nearby Corfu with his trident to create a secluded island paradise for himself and the sea-nymph Amphitrite.

Kerouac (in the guise of Sal Paradise) saw himself as the nerve-centre of a control experiment mapping the outer limits of human experience, at one point enthusiastically entering a hustlers' bar on Eighth Avenue full of "wild negro queers, sullen guys with guns, shiv-packing seamen, thin noncommittal junkies and an occasional well-dressed middle-aged detective posing as a bookie".

Once his inner vision is snatched away, and he can actually see, he remembers it as a fool's paradise and views himself as a buffoon.

Somewhere not too far away, another young Palestinian in search of martyrdom and paradise has blown himself to pieces in a crowd of Israelis.

Paradise lost, paradise regained.

Kerouac, who calls himself Sal Paradise in the book, studied at Columbia when Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren were teaching in the English department.

"The government claims that this young man has already tried to detonate himself into paradise," Mr. Bruck said.

At the height of Escobar's power, he built himself a paradise: La Hacienda Nápoles, a seven-thousand-acre estate three hours from Medellín.

He played a sushi-hating cabby in "Desperately Seeking Susan" and a poker player in Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise" and appeared as himself in "Basquiat".

Yet what he experiences over the course of his travels is not the fool's paradise of distraction from himself but just the opposite: the steady revelation of a central aspect of his character.