Sentence examples for act of literary from inspiring English sources
This was his modest act of literary heroism.
An exceptionally effective act of literary ventriloquism and entirely irresistible.
In the Times, meanwhile, Simon Jenkins condemned the award as an act of "literary vandalism".
It's an act of literary ventriloquism that illuminates the oral and folk tradition.
All around her there are silences, empty places, held breaths — an extraordinary act of literary finesse.
"Summer in Baden-Baden" is simultaneously an act of literary homage and revenge.
Naipaul's novels are as much about his imagination as they are acts of literary criticism levelled at Lamming's claims.
Performing acts of literary self-criticism can be a tricky business, akin to being one's own dentist, but Sondheim's analysis of his songs and those of others is both stinging and insightful.
There are several acts of literary larceny per page, beginning with the title (T Rex's final album), and I'd need rather more space than I have here to list even a quarter of them.
"A reader who identifies with the characters in a novel is not reacting in a naïve way that ought to be outgrown or transcended, but is performing one of the central acts of literary understanding".
Two acts of literary ventriloquism next: in A Man of Parts (Harvill Secker) David Lodge channels the elderly HG Wells to look back on the life of "the man who invented tomorrow", while James Frey takes on no less than the Messiah, running loose in contemporary New York in The Final Testament of the Holy Bible (John Murray).
