Sentence examples for appropriate literary from inspiring English sources

The Naipaul house in St. James, a suburb of Port of Spain, is the more appropriate literary landmark, Capildeo said.

For an appropriate literary metaphor, think of Lot's wife or Omar Khayyam's lines: "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on".

Before attempting a single stroke of the pen, Cosey would devote many days to studious preparation, scrutinizing every available scrap of his model's handwriting and, when he proposed to invent a text, saturating himself in the appropriate literary style.

$24.95 THE hero of Anita Shreve's new novel is a silver-haired poet named Thomas Janes, a man trailing great storm clouds of personal tragedy, and a writer of such formidable gifts that even his drinks of water take appropriate literary form: "His hand trembled in its epic progress from the table to the mouth".

"It is my job to ensure that the celebrity gossip is put into the correct sociopolitical context and recounted with the appropriate literary metaphors and allusions to Greek mythology," he explains at the start of "Death by Leisure," his book about time spent partly in the California trenches — and partly in the Hollywood Hills.

Edmund Wilson's 1944 New Yorker essay "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd," which took Sayers, Christie, Chandler, and others to task for not measuring up to appropriate literary greatness, remains the most infamous of the genre-snob bunch, and the standard from which most recent literary put-downs deviate from.

If settings of Tennessee Williams or F. Scott Fitzgerald falter out of excessive respect for the originals (among other reasons), operas like Rossini's "Donna del Lago" — which opened in a new production at New York City Opera on Thursday — appropriate distinguished literary names like Sir Walter Scott's and cheerfully reduce their writing to opera's usual "You Jane, me Tarzan" dimensions.

Chaudhuri's luminously intelligent novel appropriates a literary tradition that is both his and not his; in making Homer and Joyce speak in Bengali and in the English used by educated, cosmopolitan Bengalis, Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the map of modernism.

What Roland Barthes would call the "figure" of Rimbaud is the ghost at the banquet of literature: his radical rejection of poetry (not of writing, as Graham Robb makes clear: correspondence from Rimbaud's last 15 years constitutes a significant share of his output) has been appropriated by literary history as his most enduringly poetic act.

Forensic cross-examination is not the appropriate forum for literary criticism.

"Publishers are smart enough to cash in where it's appropriate," said Ira Silverberg, a literary agent.