10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNINGRATIATING»
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uningratiating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the ...
For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of ...
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To the Point: A Dictionary of Concise Writing
Even its fans call it “difficult” and “uningratiating,” polite euphemisms for offthe
wall, a very appropriate pun to describe this museum-proof collection of dirt piles,
rusted girders and “conceptual” creations. Even itsfans call it “difficult” and ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2014
More peculiar still, it might almost seem that, in spite of Macdon- ough's self-
sufficient, hard-eyed nature, his uningratiating ways, and rasping voice, they not
only had some hold on his heart, but repay the coarse attachment with compound
...
David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, 1865
Mr. Francis Herbert, the hero of Bertha's romance, was a thoroughly good,
conscientious, and well-meaning man, with an, unfortunately, abrupt and
uningratiating manner. One of his great charms in Bertha's eyes was his
straightforwardness.
Julia Bosville Chetwynd (hon. mrs Henry Weyland.), 1866
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'Recommended to mercy' [by M.C. Houstoun].
His manners, too, though wanting in polish, were far from uningratiating, and he
possessed the quality by which influence over the minds of others is obtained.
Through life he had been what is called, when the man is unfortunate, ...
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun, 1862
... highly admired during his lifetime by all who knew about him, and although of
rough and uningratiating manners to an extreme, yet, by many, almost beloved ;
so that a handsome marble tablet to his memory had been placed, after his death
, ...
Herbert (captain, fict.name.), 1864
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"Recommended to Mercy" ...
His manners, too, though wanting in polish, were far from uningratiating, and he
possessed the quality by which influence over the minds of others is obtained.
Through life he had been what is called, when the man is unfortunate, ...
Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte), 1862
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French introspectives: from Montaigne to Andre Gide...
But one trait, uningratiating enough, seemingly superficial yet insistent, strikes us
as common. They are all men of indifferent health, afflicted early or later in life
with maladies from which most of them die before they have reached the average
...
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Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
... girl he wouldn't have.3 Yet along with preposterous self-justification, he has
some plain, though uningratiating doubts about marriage in general. "
Considering how few poetical friendships there are, it is remarkable that so many
are married.
Robert D. Richardson, 1986
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Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, ...
Kazan's diaries also provide biographical information, but they are written mainly
in an uningratiating classical Chinese and reveal surprisingly little of what he was
attempting to achieve in his work. Although the diaries give the names of the ...
Donald Keene, Kazan Watanabe, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNINGRATIATING»
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uningratiating is used in the context of the following news items.
The Invisible Life review – intriguing study of male loneliness
... scenes work dramatically in juxtaposition with Hugo's gloomy male loneliness. A clotted, crepuscular, uningratiating film, but with a gaunt poetry of its own. PB ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Daily Reads: The Year's 15 Best New TV Characters, Why 'The …
It's the emotional fulcrum of the whole movie, and in a way an apologia (in the classical sense) for Joaquin Pheonix's completely uningratiating performance in a ... «Indie Wire, Dec 14»
Why is Tippett's King Priam so difficult to love?
Charne Rochford, though, ploughed through Achilles' lines at an unvariegated and uningratiating fortissimo. I found myself enjoying the tour's second production ... «Spectator.co.uk, Feb 14»
Joseph Wright – review
... skill and delicacy, every brushstroke a testament not only to the play of light and shade on cloth and skin, but to the artist's calmly uningratiating verisimilitude. «The Guardian, Jan 14»
Last Vegas, review
Compared with his lazy shtick in stuff like The Big Wedding, this uningratiating, often sour role is a much better chance for De Niro to deliver a real performance, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 14»
Escape Plan, review
As the uningratiating warden, Jim Caviezel is a heap of promisingly psychotic character traits – he likes to mount butterflies while listening to classical piano, and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 13»
Too many cooks spoil Haute Cuisine
Although it reveals her genuine love of cooking, these episodes add nothing to what Frot supplies in an impressively uningratiating performance. A further ... «Straight.com, Oct 13»
Movers and Shapers
At the same time, she projects her personality, a direct, uningratiating blend of tomboy and girlish, hip and dorky. Her body, a gangling collection of limbs, is a ... «New York Times, Sep 13»
Edinburgh 2013: Scottish Ballet, review
The sextet of dancers made this dense, uningratiating, coldly beautiful piece come alive, and although Sophie Martin deserves top marks (as so often with this ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
Worden, BBC Concert Orchestra, de Ridder, Queen Elizabeth Hall
De Ridder fluently guided us from the uningratiating 12-tone angst of Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Film Scene to the discombobulating mix of nostalgia ... «The Arts Desk, Mar 13»
