Sentence examples for failed literary from inspiring English sources

This failed literary endeavor was more than just an indication that the honeymoon phase of Coscette's stewardship had passed.

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris had already had failed literary careers as "John Beynon and Lucas Parkeses" before he took up science fiction writing under his best known pseudonym, and achieved immediate worldwide success with the first of several apocalyptic novels that were also to include The Chrysalids, The Kraken Wakes and The Midwich Cuckoos.

Elizabeth D. Samet's essay on failed literary allusions ("Grand Allusion," Feb. 5) was insightful and entertaining, but tracking down allusions on the Internet is only part of the problem.

What's terrible about literary competition is the fact that it puts just that relation to the test; it's unsurprising that so many of these friendships fail on literary grounds.

Such enjoyment overwhelms, and we have to give ourselves up to it, forfeiting fantasies of control, which is why words fail, and literary descriptions can seem inadequate, amusing and foolish.

Whereas Exley fixated on the alpha excellence of the football star Frank Gifford, redeeming himself in his dead jock father's eyes by writing the Great American Novel, Heller's Frank Dixon, failed writer of literary fiction, redeems himself through that second great American pastime, poker.

In his poetry also, Han tried to break out of the existing literary forms, but many of his efforts at literary reform failed.

He favoured those who wrote in the "ancient style" but failed those who employed literary embellishments.

Because so many of the West's literary custodians failed to do what they taught us literature demands.

At Harvard, he made staff at the Crimson as a freshman, but other literary pursuits failed to yield equal success.

In a single night - with sometimes querulous voice and not entirely reliable memory - he revisits scenes from his life as a failed poet but eminent literary critic.