Reception
Sarah Dempster writing in The Guardian describes the, wonderful little series, as, part leisurely biography, part arduous travelogue, that, offers an unabashedly nostalgic peek into the life of the 20th-century adventurer.
Tim Teeman writing in The Times described episode one as, hopelessly muddled, slow and uninsightful, opining that Allen managed to extinguish all the lyricism, and spirit of adventure and discovery, from Newby’s work, but concluding that, it was lovely to see Newby in archive footage cycle in the roiling morning commute, head high and defiantly and perilously weaving through the middle lane as beeping echoed all about him. Joe Clay writing in the same publication called it, a mature, inspiring hour of quintessentially British spirit.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)