The RPI index is running at 4.8% and CPI? the measure targeted by the Bank? at 3.1%, forcing governor Mervyn King to put pen to paper for the third time this year to explain to the chancellor why he has missed his 2% goal; it is turning into an epistolatory bad habit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the literary genre, Sutherland recommends the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis's epistolatory novel of Christian apologetics; Letters to my Torturer, Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi's searing memoir of his 682 days in solitary confinement written in the form of letters to Brother Hamid, his torturer; and the remarkable website Letter to my Abuser, on which women can publish letters to their abusers. ❋ Jon Henley (2010)
As for Rome and Greece, philosophy is not ancient in those places as their original sciences were rhetoric, epistolatory and poetry ¦ until Abraham became a prophet and he taught them the science of divine unity. ❋ Rizvi, Sajjad (2009)
Caudwell is a literary writer, as her elaborately classical titles might suggest; intertextual knowledge plays a key role in practically all of the books; and she revels in the epistolatory form almost as much as she loves a good last will and testament. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Right now I'm trying to figure out the order of things - there's three main POVs, one of whom is confined to epistolatory style, and then a lot of one-shot material, like a brief excerpt from a play and a listing of the best chal-shops in Tabat, and I'm not sure where many bits should go. ❋ Catrambo (2007)
His Lordship's reaction was immediate and emphatic; he wrote "declining to enter into epistolatory communication with Waiters at Lloyd's Coffee House". ❋ Unknown (1960)
Perhaps no one operation of frequent recurrence and absolute necessity involves so much mental pain and imaginative uneasiness as the reduction of thoughts to paper, for the furtherance of epistolatory correspondence. ❋ Various (N/A)
The others knew, for father, with enormous pride at his wonderful epistolatory style in his voice, was heard reading the letter to them. ❋ Unknown (1925)
He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough. ❋ Melville, Lewis (1921)
The picturesque Uruj was painted by Velasquez; the other entertained a polite epistolatory correspondence with Aretino, and died, to his regret, "like a coward" in bed. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
She found in the epistolatory treatment of her surrender to him and to the natural fate of women, a delightful exercise for her very considerable powers of expression. ❋ Unknown (1906)
He circled the room in search of a desk not haunted by epistolatory ghosts. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)
Elizabethan social and political life, acquired by years of devoted application to an exhaustive examination of documentary records and the epistolatory correspondence of the period, convinced him that ❋ Arthur Acheson (1897)
Riennes some money, partly out of pity -- ten pounds in a postal order without any covering letter, a folly that did not tend to a cessation of her epistolatory efforts. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Although during her visit in New York Mrs. Stowe made many new friends, and was overwhelmed with congratulations and praise of her book, the most pleasing incident of this time seems to have been an epistolatory interview with Jenny Lind (Goldschmidt). ❋ Stowe, Charles Edward (1889)
At all events, at the end of a week, he resumed a pen stiffened by tonics, with all his old epistolatory pertinacity. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
The only means to check this epistolatory inundation was to weigh anchor, which the captain did without loss of time. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
