Sentence examples for literary confrontations from inspiring English sources
After anatomizing the different types of nonreading, Bayard addresses the social implications in a section called "Literary Confrontations".
These subjects were about to hit the new women's magazines, but they hadn't yet quite made it, and we were enthralled by this direct confrontation with literary decorum.
After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes.
When the subject is violent confrontation in a racially divided community — as it is in those stories and in "Native Son" — a "literary" imagination can seem superfluous.
When Davidson riffs on the subtitle of Solzhenitsyn's book ("An Experiment in Literary Investigation"), it's Godard's way of emphasizing the importance of art, and of avant-gardism, in the confrontation with tyranny.
Summing up the failures of Truman Capote's late years, he wrote: "After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes".
