The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.
I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal. . . something free.
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.
If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.
The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing. . . though the Mac had no formal testing.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.