“... that began inside the Tory Party during the 1990s. In response to the Maastricht Treaty, he and Mark Reckless, another Oxford student, founded the Oxford Campaign for an Independent Britain; soon after, as the salaried director of the European Research Group, which served the informational needs of Eurosceptic MPs, he met another recent graduate, Douglas ...”

“... the hatch-way: ‘Below there ...’ That veteran courtier Tommy Lascelles was probably nearer the mark in once observing almost to himself: ‘Rupert’s more like a Life Guards officer than a publisher.’ The firm, if not run single-handed, was not far from that, and, if Hart-Davis himself did not normally undertake the packaging of the books, I should by ...”

“... like Haraway’s preference for ‘not human’ rather than ‘non-human’ – is nearer the mark. (Latour and Haraway were friends; she introduced him to her world-famous dog, Ms Cayenne Pepper.) Postmodernism, Latour argued, remains in thrall to the central claims of modernism and never superseded its parent: instead, it clings to the idea of the human ...”

“... tai and yu (‘essence’ and ‘attribute’) and the arrangement of loaded words (‘pine’, ‘rose’, ‘late cherry blossom’), renga poets such as Basho developed skills inseparable from compilation. What held between poems became intrinsic. The renga recently written by Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti and Charles Tomlinson are thus suggestive. They explore ...”

“... people rather than ‘reshape the capitalist world’. Her rare appearances in The End of Reform mark the shift in the later New Deal from a strong state mobilised against capitalist economic and political power to the defensive protection of individual rights. Members of the shrinking group of New Deal liberals, Alan Brinkley and Doris Kearns Goodwin cover ...”

“... of so many movements that he was able to influence art dramatically different from his own. Mark Rothko admired ‘the uncanny magic’ of the things he made. You could also say that in his work the blarings of Pop were quietly anticipated. Solomon makes a persuasive argument for Cornell as ‘the most undervalued of American artists’.The second ...”

“... at the waves. ‘Great northern divers – in summer plumage!’ He could tell a bird by a mark, a piped note, an attitude in the air. It was he who saw in a grassy rut the handful of fluff that was a lapwing chick while its parents flipped in the air overhead, he who pointed out the way the starlings launched themselves mob-handed into the wind. We ...”

“... quotations or dismiss them as self-indulgent distractions or pointless jokes, which misses the mark.The postwar bebop jazzmen employed musical quotations even more often than Ellington. Charlie Parker frequently concludes fast-paced, hard-swinging numbers by stopping on a dime and gaily quoting – out of tempo, with leisurely elegance – from Percy ...”

“... broadcast their happiness to the papers. It is the disoriented and incompatible who left their mark – in official statistics, court cases and the columns of the popular press. A small number of vengeful husbands killed their unfaithful wives, their trials reported in salacious detail by the tabloids. Divorces went up, from 4100 decrees absolute in ...”

“... which Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore (and, slightly earlier, Gertrude Stein) rose up, angry and ready to do battle with mediocrity. Carr describes a pretty mediocre Philadelphia a hundred years ago, ‘pink and drab’ and hidebound. H.D. found it disconcerting after a bucolic childhood in the Moravian town of Bethlehem, further north ...”

“... North American Free Trade Agreement threw Mexico’s rural economy into turmoil: migrant numbers rose dramatically and the Clinton administration began to militarise the border. The 9/11 attacks were used to justify even more fences and security personnel. Today the US-Mexico border is tightly monitored and in places absurdly fortified; it is patrolled by ...”

“... for Malone, was to establish a developmental progression which would enable the reader ‘to mark the gradations by which [Shakespeare] rose from mediocrity to the summit of excellence, from artless and sometimes uninteresting dialogues, to those unparalleled compositions’: Barroll offers a different chronology, but ...”

“... turn in the road. Highwaymen were proud to carry pistols because the pistol, like the sword, was a mark of status, but the pistols they carried were close-quarter weapons, to be thrust in through a coach window. The blunderbuss, too, was hopelessly inaccurate, as likely to kill the highwayman’s horse as its rider. The problem with both pistols and muskets ...”

“... he felt bad about it and, especially as he approached forty, he used another symbol, ‘the black mark against the day’, to indicate that he had been unable to resist dipping into pornography. What he perused so guiltily, it seems safe to say, was not what the late 20th century would call hard-core; rather the sort of thing, like ‘two vile poems’ by ...”

“... Bittersweet, her fine collection of essays on representations of eros in ancient Greek culture, ‘mark the difference between a mortal and an immortal story of love.’ Carson’s Geryon is winged and, like her Herakles, immortal, but both also have a dual incarnation in Autobiography of Red as modern teenagers. Her Erytheia is a Canadian town, where ...”