Sentence examples for literary document from inspiring English sources

You have every right to view the Bible solely as a literary document or a historical curiosity.

If I sometimes wanted more expressiveness from it — if I wished it were a literary document as well as an historical one — well, you can't have everything.

From geographical references in the earliest Indo-Aryan literary document, the Ṛigveda ("The Veda Composed in Verses," c. 1500 bce), it is clear that the earliest settlement of Indo-Aryans was in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent.

He, like the theologians clutching their robes and calling for Strauss's censorship, did not believe the Bible should be read as a literary document, but he saw enough clerics in thrall to the that idea to become worried.

To set the stage for his detailed analysis of Genesis (often verse by verse), Kass notes the leanness of the Bible as a literary document, its lacunas and ambiguities, and so its openness to interpretation.

The traditional biopic was closer to a historical or literary document, phrased in the past tense and the third person; the high-def version, though still dealing in past events, is fiercely present tense and, often getting us to identify with protagonists with "universal", superhero-style character arcs, more first-person.

FROM THE ARCHIVES displaying literary documents written by, or sent to, fiction editor William Maxwell.

Three… FROM THE ARCHIVES displaying literary documents written by, or sent to, fiction editor William Maxwell.

Prosecutors said he downloaded approximately 4.8 million scientific and literary documents.

No wonder that these novels seemed, on first publication, to be among the most essential literary documents of their time.

Liu was well known among his contemporaries, as is apparent in references to him found in literary documents such as Huashi Huiyao and Tuhui Baojian.