Sentence examples for asserted that the novel from inspiring English sources

In a celebrated polemic in the late 1960's, Eldridge Cleaver, then a member of the Black Panther Party, asserted that the novel illustrated Mr. Baldwin's "agonizing, total hatred of blacks".

Take Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March," which Laura Miller acknowledged in Salon last week she found "tedious," although she'd "never … assert that the novel has no merit".

Bakshi sent Salinger a letter explaining why he should be allowed to adapt the novel; the writer responded by thanking Bakshi and asserting that the novel was unfit for any medium other than its original form.

New York Times writer Gerald Jonas asserts that the novel's plot summary resembles a "grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction rip-off movie", but says that Card develops the elements well despite this "unpromising material".

In this influential critical manifesto Champfleury asserted that the hero of a novel should be an ordinary man rather than an exceptional figure.

Similarly, Geduld observes that "the monolith ... has a very simple explanation in Clarke's novel," though she later asserts that even the novel doesn't fully explain the ending.

Mr. Bush asserted that the program would inevitably lead to higher taxes, asking, scornfully: "He says he's going to have a novel health care plan.

Critics asserted that the signs were discriminatory.

He asserted that the prosecutors lacked proof.

They also asserted that the result might breed more violence.

But they asserted that the alternative was worse.