Sentence examples for literary direction from inspiring English sources

His arrival in Paris coincided with a significant change of literary direction.

It was in 1932, the year of his birth, that she partly changed her literary direction, publishing her first crime novel, Footsteps in the Dark.

Last year, he had the closest thing to a religious experience that the rationalist astronomer has ever had, and it made him want to change his literary direction.

Sun managing editor Stig Abell may have left the paper for the heady heights of the TLS, but editor Tony Gallagher is clearly trying to steer it in a more literary direction.

Nevertheless, it is through Junimea that surfaced the first gesture of transmitting a literary direction to some writers of rural extraction: a phenomenon of great importance, the neglect of which would render unexplainable the entire subsequent development of our literature".

Also according to Ornea, the association with Dragomirescu was also characteristic for the Junimist twilight, given that this circle had failed to impose "a new literary direction", and was tributary to the legacy of various traditionalist groups.

Her long career as an architectural writer began in 1945 with her rhapsodic appreciation of R. M. Schindler for the leftist literary journal Direction.

Quinn employs a battery of literary references for direction and misdirection of the plot or illumination of the dramatis personae – and Curtain Call holds up to the invited scrutiny.

Kingsley Amis may have fathered Martin, but his own father was a mustard manufacturer's clerk; prior to Kingsley, neither maternal nor paternal line seemed to lean in any particularly literary or artistic direction.

Wetherell, Margaret, "Linguistic Repertoires and Literary Criticism: New Directions for a Social Psychology of Gender" in Towards a New Psychology of Gender, Gergen, Mary M., and Davis, Sara N. (eds)., New York: Routledge, 1997.

It is curious, given the proven taste of the operagoing public, that American composers so often gravitate in the opposite direction, toward literary classics in which atmosphere dominates over action.