Sentence examples for crowd of writers from inspiring English sources

Diggi Palace's lawns held a boisterous crowd of writers and readers, a cacophony of voices debating the global economy, religious landscapes in India, and arguing about the Jewish novel.

In one, a 14-year-old accompanies her parents to a dinner party, where a louche crowd of writers and painters watch fellow guests dance naked on the lawn.

The plain fact that many silent movies were plays without the spoken dialogue, plays deprived of their very substance, was what made the theatre-going audience — and the Broadway crowd of writers — so contemptuous of them.

Ms. Richardson navigated through the crowd of writers, who included Rick Moody, Amy Hempel and Allan Gurganus, author of "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," who recounted his Yaddo experiences.

Rick DeMarinis, who seems to have warmed his toes by the fires of James Crumley's gonzo genius, is one of that lonesome crowd of writers who love the language but aren't afraid to rough it up to save its life.

It was in search of similar courageous efforts that a crowd of writers, publishers, seasoned partygoers and hangers-on, as well as the philosopher A. C. Grayling, gathered to hear a pair of volunteers try to remain calm while reading racy excerpts from the offending nominees, and to find out the winner.

She accepted the award before a crowd of 900 writers, editors and publishers, and urged American writers to remain aware of their immense power in the world and their consequent responsibility not to degrade the language they had been given.

Salinger was among a crowd of postwar writers whom Leslie Fiedler called Teenage Impersonators, along with Mailer, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

A crowd of editors, writers, fact-checkers, copy editors, designers, and video producers had assembled to meet Lassie in the twentieth-floor lobby.

On another occasion, Plimpton hosted a party after the screening of Maysles's "Salesman" to find his usual crowd of New York writers mingling with the Bible salesman featured in the documentary.

In an excoriating review of On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee's recent foray into dystopian SF, she lists various faults of logic and plausibility, charging him with being just another literary tourist, one of a crowd of mainstream writers who have dabbled in the genre without paying their dues.