“... she was to be modern she must go beyond Pater and James – let alone Bennett and Wells – in the search for ‘significant form’, and in order to register changes in character and psychology. Writing about Richardson, she noted that she ‘fashioned her sentence consciously’ in order to investigate the psychology of her sex. Woolf recognised that ...”

“... is echoed in later accounts. ‘I believe too much Learning had turn’d his Head, or too deep a Search into the Secrets of Nature.’ She wrote this in exoneration, but others would tell the story of Swift’s last years in a hostile spirit. Indeed, in the biography that followed Pilkington’s, the Earl of Orrery’s Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr ...”

“... leaden monologues with heavy, fetid innuendo about power as ‘an aphrodisiac’. He began to be gay, to be clumsily elegant – even safely and silkily indiscreet – and to seek out the salon life. Isaacson tells the story without fully intending to do so. Take, as Kissinger had to if he was going to cut himself a path, the question of nuclear ...”

“... The film’s success broadened Stiller’s ambitions, and he took Garbo with him to Berlin in search of more lucrative and prestigious contracts for them both. Meanwhile, Garbo’s performance in Gösta Berling caught the attention of G.W. Pabst, who cast her as a virtuous woman forced to the brink of prostitution by poverty in Joyless Street ...”

“... mob that catches the killer, because they can’t stand the way the intensive and inept police search for him is ruining their businesses. The killer himself, Hans Beckert, is more exclusive than Kürten was. He kills only little girls – eight when the film begins, soon to be joined by another, Elsie Beckmann, whom we see bouncing a ball on her way home ...”

“... Snyder, as God’s punishment for the state’s tolerance of homosexuality (Snyder himself was not gay); the court found that their chants were entitled to special protection. One judge, Samuel Alito, dissented, denying that the First Amendment includes ‘a licence for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case’. So we arrive at the seemingly ...”

“... dialogue is keen that her daughter learn a similar lesson. The most successful courtesan is gay, but doesn’t laugh at the drop of a hat; instead she smiles sweetly and seductively. She is deft (dexiōs) in her intercourse and never phoney. She doesn’t talk too much and never makes a joke at the expense of anyone who is present. There was a minor ...”

“... share Eliot’s precise belief, since the greatness of the work has been the authenticity of the search.’ But what if the very point of the search is that it could, under pressure, lack ‘authenticity’? What if the search has been tentative and plagued with doubts, doubts that must ...”

“... suffrage, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement, second-wave feminism and the entrenchment of gay rights as episodes in a single heartening story of leftist achievement. By then the quarrels between culturalists and reformists will all be forgotten, and historians will be at a loss to understand why anyone ever thought the Sixties was a big deal. Our ...”

“... I suppose, to see Gurney as torn between London and Gloucester, music and poetry, peace and war, gay and straight, sense and nonsense. Not so; or perhaps one should more cautiously say, only peripherally so. What it is now possible to see is a rational mind developing. The one thing which reassembling chance-blown papers cannot supply is any sense of ...”

“... his most recent work, he has set himself the task of analysing the corpus of Xi Jinping Thought.In search of what Xi thinks, Rudd surveys official communiqués, proclamations and the party’s theoretical journal, Qiushi. The Xi who emerges is a committed ideologue, combining Sinocentric nationalism with Marxist struggle. The Xi ideology is a fusion of ...”

“... origins are evident in the frequent flights of high-literary pastiche: The Magic Mountain, the search for Corvo, Kafka (Francis Jay temporarily becomes Franz Kay) and Borges are alluded to. Magic and dirty realism are invoked. There is much virtuoso play with modern critical theory, in which Bradbury exhibits prodigious expertise while at the same time ...”

“... of a Landscape Painter in Albania (1851), he writes of carrying out ‘an artist’s mere tour of search’; like the best of the nonsense, the phrase sounds like a good-bad translation from another language, and it captures the odd combination of the driven and the aimless in him. Although he speaks of his ‘professionally useful’ motives for ...”

“... could buy a ‘Free Cambodia’ T-shirt, donate to an anti-Sandinista relief fund, support the search for POWs, stock up on Confederate paraphernalia, get a TEC-9 assault pistol, hire a hitman or order dynamite by the truckload. The popularity of a magazine like this, which at the height of its circulation in the early 1980s had 190,000 ...”

“... commanding. An agent tried to call Anselmo’s attention to a document he had found in the house search, saying: ‘Boss!’ Odebrecht answered him: ‘Yes?’ Odebrecht’s wife asked Anselmo ‘if his imprisonment would be the five-day job or “the real deal”’. It was the real deal. Thanks to the testimony of a former secretary, investigators learned ...”