Sentence examples for lit game from inspiring English sources

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If he made it in the "quality lit game," it wasn't only because he was a good writer; it was because he was an imperfect man.

In other words, Ms. Brune is a player in what the writer Terry Southern once called the "quality lit game," but instead of trying to sell her work through publishers, she has decided to go right to the reading public.

"I trust then, Bill," he remarks, after giving Styron the manuscript, "that you think this will put me in the quality lit game?" Southern is first seen as part of George Plimpton's crowd of expatriate carpetbaggers, living in postwar Paris at a moment when "the U.S. dollar was... in a state of loony ascendancy, for which the French have been punishing us ever since".

Algren, an old drinking companion whose eyes took on a manic gleam when he got excited, and who "would go off on a riff of giggles that was not unlike Richard Widmark's in 'Kiss of Death.' " Southern, the Texan who idolized the British novelist Henry Green and who aspired to succeed in "the quality lit game," even as he cranked out "de luxe porn" to make ends meet.

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Nobody would have green-lit "Game of Thrones" if not for the success of Mr. Jackson's "Rings" trilogy.

(At least this will give me a leg up on Dale Peck if ESPN2 ever talks Bud Light into sponsoring the Xtreme Lit Crit Games).

Haring's work, like a lit-up game of tribal Tetris, focuses on the power inherent in simple lines, colors and shapes.

Stan follows the men inside, and he sees a round lit-up game show style board, where the men cut off a chicken's head and let the decapitated chicken run on the board while one of them plays a tune similar to Yakety Sax on a kazoo.

As hundreds of children take their seats in the Demarest school gymnasium, Mr. Garner conjures up Mr. Edison's candle-lit era, one without Game Boys or Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

In the brightly lit world of video games lives a character named Wreck-It Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly).

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