Sentence examples for fluent literary from inspiring English sources
Literally, a sinsabor is something that lacks savor, but idiomatically the word means a minor unpleasantness — a fluent literary version of the title might be "The Troubles of the True Policeman").
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is an example of what happens when an author's fluent literary conceits give way to the sight of all-too-human people moving and talking in the real-world spaces of a movie.
She prefers an "open and fluent and very broad-based" literary discussion to one in which the gimmicky critic with his "secondary cleverness" shows off at the expense of the text.
Grigson was best known to the public as a literary journalist; he combined a fluent, versatile prose style with an acerbic temperament in his widely read critical articles and reviews.
Two years later Thomas enlisted in the British army; freed from routine literary work, he was able to produce increasingly fluent poetry.
He was a storyteller rather than a "literary" writer, a sort of street-dog Nabokov; fluent in six languages, he passed punningly from one to the other in a dazzling display of instinctive interlineation.
Because Motherwell spoke fluent French — he had spent time in Paris — and was literary minded, Schapiro enlisted him to meet and greet the refugees, making him one of the few people in the New York art world with ready and continuing access to them.
Fluent in five modern languages, he had a vast repertory of literary allusions at his fingertips.
But among major American literary figures of recent times, John Updike is the one about whom the complaint (too fluent, too lavish, too prolific) is most common.
How did Thoreau achieve his literary voice, which has worn better, to a modern ear, than Emerson's more fluent, worldly, and - to be expected from a former clergy-man - oratorical one?
Above all, he used his effortlessly fluent, polished and mellifluous writing style to chronicle a world that had increasingly little use for high-minded literary values, investing rough-edged emotional lives with his trademarked delicacy of perception.
