Sentence examples for committed novel from inspiring English sources

One book I remember stirring up controversy in the mid-70s was The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, which is no one's idea of a politically committed novel.

Too many themes and the novelist risks committing a "novel of ideas," a term that can conceal a note of reservation.

Indeed, if Hardy found it possible to stop writing fiction in the middle of his life and at the height of his powers — a renunciation unimaginable from, say, Henry James — it is partly because he was never truly committed to the novel as a form, the way James or Flaubert were.

Indeed, if Hardy found it possible to stop writing fiction in the middle of his life and at the height of his powers a renunciation unimaginable from, say, Henry James it is partly because he was never truly committed to the novel as a form, the way James or Flaubert were.

Although it may take the rest of his life, Hawkins is committed to building novel software based on the structure and the function of the neocortex.

To identify when cells become committed to a novel phenotype and will continue to produce and accumulate lipids without external stimuli, we designed the following experiment.

I know a writer who will not commit her novel-in-progress to Google Docs, because doing so would mean it would live in her Drive, beside shared and shareable texts.

Our book that deserved to do better: Translated fiction remains difficult in this country, even though publishers are undoubtedly much less reticent about committing to novels in another language.

Oscar told my mother exactly who was in the frame: "Oscar, Mummy, Daddy, Conrad - the whole family!" · Being Committed, a novel by Anna Maxted, is published on February 3 by Arrow, price £5.99.

This is a novel deeply committed to unfinishedness — the characters speak in sentences that trail off, plot points are left to be guessed at or pieced together.

It helped having a director who could see the wood for the trees (Curtis Hanson, who made LA Confidential, surely the most baffling crime novel ever committed to film), and the acting was solid: Paul Giamatti as head of the Fed; James Woods as a lightning rod for swearwords; Ed Asner as a beaming Warren Buffett, captioned simply as "World's Richest Man".