Sentence examples for literary equivalent from inspiring English sources

This is the literary equivalent of waterboarding.

He wished I'd devour the literary equivalent of carrots.

Mr. Koestenbaum's book strikes me as the literary equivalent.

"I think they are the literary equivalent of canned applause.

I've recently been indulging in the literary equivalent of schadenfreude.

The literary equivalent of music to cut your wrists to.

It skirts the literary equivalent of movie music.

It's the literary equivalent of the contemporary habit of exposing seams in garments.

Chodorow was writing in a time-honored tradition, the literary equivalent of sending black roses.

Finally, Dostoevsky beats Tolstoy, settling, perhaps, the literary equivalent of the old Stone vs. Beatles battle.

Are they the literary equivalent of a performer tapping a microphone before he begins?