Sentence examples for authorial thing from inspiring English sources

Any authorial thing just pulls you out.

Attributed authorial assistance is one thing.

Perhaps there is also such a thing as authorial overstretch.

Beautifully danced, earnestly acted and wholly shorn of sentimentality, this was a show that honored every moment of original authorial intent and yet found things in the material that made it pulse with prescience and new heartache.

Flaubert did strange things, such as eliminating any authorial voice or stable moral centre; he used the imperfect as his main tense, giving a single action the sense of being suspended in time; played with varying shades of irony down to the deepest hues of pastiche; slipped between the subjective and the objective viewpoint without a tremor.

Readers tend to forgive this kind of thing these days – the slipping of authorial control, the fumbling of register.

Carbury — the closest thing in the novel to an authorial stand-in — is not only a man of unshakeable principle but also a self-righteous prig who never hesitates to tell friends and family how to live their lives.

Brue, the nearest thing in the novel to an authorial proxy, is trapped in the ossified world of European old money and falls in modest and distant love with her, taking on her problems, and discovering that "in doing so he had consciously and deliberately entered her danger zone, which he now shared with her.

And authorial intent is not the way that those things get discussed in those spaces.

Conditions in this brave-new-world Britain, and exactly how Kathy and her friends fit into them, are all spooky authorial surprises, and (as is the case with most things) when you're reading the novel it is best to begin without too many prior assumptions.

When authorial intent is removed from the game world, we lose the one thing that bothered to check what we were doing.