"It's not some sort of fundamentalist tract challenging the basis of Judeo-Christian religion," Ms. Shaw said.
He has not written the sort of scholarly tracts for which Benedict will be remembered, but he has produced "Happiness in This Life" (Random House), a collection of peppy one-liners, almost self-helpish in tone, culled from his encyclicals and sermons.
Consider the two French producers who wanted to turn The Big Picture - my second novel, about American suburban disaffection and an accidental homicide - into some sort of quasi-Marxist tract, set in Paris at the time of the Algerian war (they didn't get the rights).
At Lake Oswego, Oregon, a deserted street of tract houses under a glowering sky suggests the sort of gloomy mediocrity that makes people fall apart.
So we've created our own sort of plug-in, which basically models vocal tracts, and within that we can say it's got big features, it's got a big neck, and it's screaming because it's angry.
The doctor will sew the edges of he fibrous tract to the wound edges, forming a sort of pouch in the process.
There is nothing improper about American Jews and their Christian allies attempting to sway US policy: the Lobby's activities are not a conspiracy of the sort depicted in tracts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In mid-April, however, a group of eighteen researchers, activists, and philanthropists published a six-thousand-word tract, called "An Ecomodernist Manifesto," that envisions a different sort of Anthropocene not only a good one but a great one.
As it degenerates from its thrilling opening air crash into a rehab-friendly, cod-religious sobriety tract, one remembers this is a Robert Zemeckis movie, and he is prone to this sort of thing.
