Sentence examples for literary description from inspiring English sources

Thus, more words than previously were given to science and somewhat fewer to "those aspects of life and thought which lend themselves to literary description".

It is probable that many experiments with basic physical principles were first realized in the form of moving toys known through literary description.

The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2100BC) The earliest known literary description of a park-type landscape appears in the ancient Sumerian tale The Epic of Gilgamesh.

What readers have known for decades is that Agee used his reporting material to create his 1941 book, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," a literary description of abject poverty in the South, accompanied by starkly haunting Walker Evans photographs.

The novel is maybe a third too long, chiefly because as he wanders around King can hardly see a place, a face or a chair without embarking on a wordy, if not literary, description of it.

I've read Lessing's "Laocoon" and understand that the visual representation of horrors tends to be more disturbing than their literary description, but the kind of sophistication in cinematic habits we'd like our children to develop will never come about if they can't see an interesting range of movies from the earliest age — appropriate or not, serious or not.

So perhaps we get a clearer picture from the literary descriptions.

Excellent documentary evidence is found in mural paintings, relief carvings, and literary descriptions.

Madame Bovary is also at the centre of any discussion of literary descriptions of adultery.

Purely literary descriptions of their freedom, their breathtaking mobility, and their agelessness were construed as practical objectives by later generations.

His literary descriptions of cities, paintings, or scenes of nature are valuable sources for the history of art.