Example sentences for: flaherty

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  • Doctorow's 1975 novel about turn-of-the-century America gets saddled with forgettable tunes by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally that is "thuddingly didactic," especially on race (Lloyd Rose, the Washington Post ). The show has "the aura of something assembled by corporate committee," says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.

  • Less commercial list-makers might have felt the need to pay lip service to, for instance, Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922), an undeniably "great" film that is not on the AFI list.

  • Flaherty's famous portrait of an Eskimo's daily struggle to survive was the first attempt to join documentary filmmaking to personal vision, in Flaherty's case a vision of humankind's struggle to overcome Nature.

  • The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice Weaver Flaherty unites two intrinsically fascinating domains of knowledge—the workings of the brain and the nature of creativity.


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