Sentence examples for embarrassing novel from inspiring English sources

Critics and the public are prepared to say infinitely more dismissive things about new art than ever gets said about new literary fiction: it's common for modern art to be mocked as "junk", but rare for even the most outrageous or embarrassing novel to be dismissed as not worth the paper it's written on.

It works a magic on obviousness, so that it becomes a novel about British embarrassment and embarrassing Britishness.

Perhaps they are embarrassing as that unfinished novel in your top desk drawer.

The chapter is part of the musty old furniture of the novel: familiar, faintly embarrassing, so comfortable that one no longer examines it closely.

Founded by Auberon Waugh, its crusade to stamp out embarrassing sex scenes in English novels continues under his son, Alexander.

An attempt to modernize the village novel could well be embarrassing rather than amusing.

The idealized, Christlike character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel metamorphosed into something embarrassing: an emblem of subservience and complicity.

At least a dozen alumni, all of whom graduated from Penn within the last three decades, have revisited their painful, funny, embarrassing adolescent years to create young-adult novels.

And then, she copied them learning what most folks absorb naturally on the playground only through voracious novel reading and the aftermath of embarrassing gaffes.

Speaking as someone who's had two novels published by HarperCollins: how incredibly embarrassing.

More subtly, Edward Said wrote a perceptive analysis of "Kim" in his 1993 book, "Culture and Imperialism," calling the novel "rich and absolutely fascinating" but "profoundly embarrassing".