Sentence examples for author capable of from inspiring English sources

With "Golden Hill," he arrives at last, bearing the reputation of an author capable of making any topic, however unlikely, at once fascinating and amusing.

He seemed to be saying that no author capable of writing a book he admired would ever sell out to Hollywood, so it must have been done without my consent.

As in McCarthy's other, more familiar work writing, directing, and acting for movies, "Men in Space" confirms his reputation as an agile and venturesome author capable of weaving disparate voices into a thrilling and satisfying whole.

Most were pale pastiches of the original but enough good ones were written, and sold, to demonstrate that there was a market for well-crafted books about football, and authors capable of producing them.

He is one of the few modern authors capable of bending the reality of the present in order to excavate the power of the past.

In any case, this novel feels more like a weary wallow in Hollywood scum than the sort of savage satire this gifted author is capable of writing.

The characters, narrator or author are capable of listening and reckoning with the contours of what black women like Calpurnia "seeth" and "declare" to themselves about the horrifying, meandering spectacle of American whiteness.

The author is capable of tossing in bombs like: "In the Western world during the medieval era, those various causes of mysterious effects had coalesced into the idea of one God".

Perplexed by this strange, faltering novel, I turned back to Life of Pi, Yann Martel's 2002 Booker prize winner, to remind myself what the author is capable of.

"Perhaps the words remember me", he writes in Banners of My Own Choosing, as if there is, or could be, a world where the letters and sentences produced by an author are capable of nostalgia, even affection.

It could be that the author is capable of stronger phraseology, on the febrile, emotionally explosive content of Victorian literature, but reluctant to go over the top, since she is applying for five different courses, in places offering conflicting advice on personal statements.