Late in his short life, Gogol found religion and promptly lost art.
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Maturin is an intellectual, a linguist, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, which, late in his life, gave Mr O'Brian an honorary degree.
Late in his life Zoffany traveled to India, and the works from that period seem to be the weakest suggesting that he may well have been losing the technical mastery that pervades even works that are uneven as credible portrayals of people.
While he was a realist on nuclear armament during his professional career, late in life Mr. Kampelman embraced the ideal of a nuclear-free world.
However acclaimed he was late in life for his filmmaking, he never stopped regarding himself above all as a painter.
Harry Truman, late in life, caught his wife, Bess, burning their letters to each other.
When he told me late last fall that he wanted his life to be just his, I told my editor that I was going to stop at the column's one-year anniversary.
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The Charles Dickens Museum celebrates arguably the most iconic author of Victorian London, who lived and scribbled here in the late 1830s, recreating aspects of his daily life and career with manuscripts, paintings and original furniture.
Our work is inspired by our late friend Clay Hunt, who took his own life after leaving the service.
Zuckerberg told ABC that he was motivated to add the organ donor tool in part because of discussions with his medical-student girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, and also because he was moved by his friendship with the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by a liver transplant.
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In her intensity and her certitude, Ms. Crawford calls to mind several of the reformers brought so vividly to life by the late historian Thomas McCraw in his "Prophets of Regulation" (1984), most notably the progressive lion Louis Brandeis.
"Seduced and Abandoned, " which HBO picked up ahead of its Cannes premiere, begins with a quote attributed to the late director Orson Welles: that 95 percent of his life is spent trying to raise money for movies, and 5 percent is actually making them.
And even Mr Quilter, with his progressive view of life in a call centre, says that late shifts remain unpopular.
Mrs McKeown also said her late husband Stephen - Rebecca's stepfather - tried to take his own life five or six times before he killed himself in March 2008.
Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.
He was arrested in late July and was sent to Hydebank Wood Young Offenders Centre where he took his own life.
Jared Falcon has been in and out of institutions his whole life, but managed to write and record more than 300 songs in the late '80s on a shoddy tape recorder.
Almost every news report and piece of analysis I have read since late yesterday afternoon about the new Pope has made mention of his propensity for a simple life and his wealth of humility.
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Obviously, a dishevelled and deranged Howard Hughes springs to mind. (The late and reclusive billionaire was never out of his PJs at the end of his tragic life.) For the simple reason that just as leggings have become an acceptable wardrobe staple, along with jeans, pajamas are about to have their fashion close-up.
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Prince Bandar later recalled that he ate more pizza at late-night meetings during the autumn and winter of 1990-91 than in his entire life before or since.
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As the word "last" implies, the music was written very late in Strauss' life, and apart from one short piece, these were indeed his swan songs.
In all these novels, it seems that when the main character finally gains an insight into the meaning of his life, and is in a position to take some control over it, it is already too late.
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