Sentence examples for biographical explanations from inspiring English sources

Koolhaas resists biographical explanations.

Though now a standard method of historical criticism, this practice led to allegations that Sainte-Beuve was providing merely biographical explanations of literary phenomena.

Maybe he felt this way because the circumstances of the religious wars filled his youth, but even to put it like this is to show our prejudice for anachronistic historical or biographical explanations.

Biographical explanations for literature can be "dangerous," Nicholl notes, but, through imaginative use of primary source material, he culls the "secret flavours of particularity" that distinguished a corner of London at the turn of the seventeenth century, down to the kind of privy that might have been in Shakespeare's house.

If "American Rose" does not excel at biographical explanation, it does have a penchant for ornate writing.

Of course, any such biographical explanation is a cheat: the reader cannot be expected to supply these facts; the poem means what it means, on its own.

But especially important is what Barry Day does with all these letters to and from Coward: he provides copious amplifications and explanations, biographical data and background material.

Coward's letters are enormously charming (his correspondents' aren't bad either), and Barry Day provides amplifications, explanations, biographical data and background material.

Notoriously unwilling to entertain any kind of biographical study or to supply explanation for his imaginative work, he was persuaded to agree, in 1985, to the publication of letters.

The two-page form simply asks for some basic biographical information, as well as an explanation of what it is exactly you'd like to do with your Jump rig.

In particular, by listening to personal biographical narratives we were able to identify explanations for participants' guarded relationships with healthcare staff and their continued concealment of their low literacy.