Tolstoy is right in saying that Lear is not a very good play, as a play. From Wordnik.com. [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference
Well you're definitely right that to say any one thing about Tolstoy is nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Who Cares Who Is John Galt?] Reference
Tolstoy is pretty much the opposite of whatever “crackpot” is supposed to mean. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?] Reference
However, Tolstoy is not simply trying to rob others of a pleasure he does not share. From Wordnik.com. [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference
He sees in Tolstoy a man with far more of an artist's sensibility than a movement organizer. From Wordnik.com. [Mirren is the power behind Tolstoy biopic 'Last Station'] Reference
Buddenbrooks – a masterpiece "approaching the classical realism in Tolstoy" – but passed his Magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature] Reference
Throughout the book Tolstoy is clearly trying to get across to his readers something besides aesthetic contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [I'm not so sure ...] Reference
One of the first things an English reader would notice in Tolstoys pamphlet is that it hardly deals with Shakespeare as a poet. From Wordnik.com. [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference
He was offended that the press were calling Tolstoy etc. From Wordnik.com. [Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Official Web Site] Reference
In politics it used to be called Tolstoy: war and peace. From Wordnik.com. ['A Servant's Heart'] Reference
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all repressive governments are alike. From Wordnik.com. [The Emptiness of Language | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
I recollect this, having just read Gary Saul Morson's book on Tolstoy, which is pretty good. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FICTIONAL FOOTNOTES.] Reference
I'm tempted to paraphrase Tolstoy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all countries are unhappy in the global recession but each country is unhappy in its own way. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Cohen: Writing from London] Reference
To paraphrase Tolstoy, every secure computer system is alike, while every insecure one is dysfunctional in its own way. From Wordnik.com. [An Identity Heist The Size of Texas] Reference
To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy political parties are all alike, but every unhappy political party is unhappy in its own way. From Wordnik.com. [Gored, Greened, Democrats Gripe] Reference
JM Coetzee calls Tolstoy the exemplary master of authority, by which he means, I think, that he makes us trust what he tells us. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Obese people are all alike in the way they become obese, to paraphrase Tolstoy, but every slim person is slim in his or her own way. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Yager: Pick One -- Eat Less or Move More] Reference
In the book, I paraphrase Tolstoy and say that normal cells are identically happy, but cancer cells are unhappy in their own unique ways. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Tolstoy is said to be an enemy of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Mirren is the power behind Tolstoy biopic 'Last Station'] Reference
And yet there’s no need for anyone to call Tolstoy and Shaw names. From Wordnik.com. [Head Shaking and the best Canadian Poem] Reference
She too was keeping a "Tolstoy" diary and began to document what was taking place. From Wordnik.com. ['The Death of Tolstoy'] Reference
Tolstoy is the great master. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Martin du Gard - Banquet Speech] Reference
However post-Soviet fiction differs considerably from realistic prose such as Tolstoy's. From Wordnik.com. [Eurozine articles] Reference
Nantini, is your surname Tolstoy?. From Wordnik.com. [Abitino’s Pizza Enters the Burger Arena Today with the Grand Opening of City Burger | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
"Tolstoy," he says, "rejects the inspiration of the Old. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom of God Is Within You] Reference
"Wonderful walk across the fields," wrote Tolstoy in his diary. From Wordnik.com. [THE LAY OF THE LAND] Reference
"Voltaire and Tolstoy were interesting but very complicated," he says. From Wordnik.com. [He's Back] Reference
Because it is a great moment to be reading Tolstoy, because we're at war. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in Translations] Reference
Even Russia — or at least the Russia that Tolstoy wrote about — was a monoculture. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Great American Novel Destroying Novelists?] Reference
Tolstoy and his contemporaries were all drawn to the land as a backdrop for their work. From Wordnik.com. [THE LAY OF THE LAND] Reference
As always, and unlike Tolstoy, Chekhov leaves the question of what it all means unanswered. From Wordnik.com. [Mixed Media] Reference
In the unhappy families department, it's not Tolstoy-but then Tolstoy was never this droll. From Wordnik.com. [A Mixed Bag For Summer] Reference
A Certified Important Book you haven't read: Too many to mention: all Tolstoy, all Dostoevsky. From Wordnik.com. [A Life In Books] Reference
One, a Russian-literature major, says that, like Tolstoy, she is "searching" for meaning in life. From Wordnik.com. [Crushing The Cult Of Doom] Reference
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