Sentence examples for troublesome books from inspiring English sources
She is unlikely to be told what to do by meddling studio execs, and this time around there are no troublesome books to be adapted, no details to be dispensed with to fit running times, and no deeply green young actors heroically doing their best in almost impossible circumstances.
In this week's issue, Hilton Als considers "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word," a new book by Randall Kennedy, which attempts to come to terms with the cultural significance of one of the most loaded words in America.
One is especially hungry for Twain's kind of transformative complexity after reading Randall Kennedy's thorny book, "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon; $22).
I talked about this a few years ago with Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor who had earlier stirred a controversy of his own with his book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word".
Nothing is off limits to Kennedy, an African-American professor of law at Harvard whose last book was the provocative "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word".
More troublesome, the book never quite comes alive, never transcends its author's meticulous calculations.
He found the task of managing the printers continually troublesome, but the book met with as much success as the first volume.
More troublesome was what book to pick.
"He has to deal every day with this troublesome tribe," the book says.
Churchill was not alone in his opposition to Hitler during what he called his wilderness years, and therein lies the strength of Lynne Olson's brisk, engaging new book, "Troublesome Young Men".
