Sentence examples for literary expectations from inspiring English sources

We read, suspecting there would be no story without a shock to come; so this meticulous, almost ethnographic account is animated by our entirely literary expectations.

In addition to Dame Stella, Man Booker had assembled a distinguished panel, four experienced writers and critics who could be relied upon to steer the fragile vessel of great literary expectations through the perilous waters of literary London.

Intrinsic to their vocation is an inevitable rendezvous with non-literary expectations.

William Demby, whose novels, written while he was an expatriate in Italy, challenged literary conventions and expectations of what a black writer should write about, died on May 23 at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Emma Bovary fulfilled all the young scholar's expectations of literary culture at its finest; Emma Woodhouse left him cold.

Austerely furnished with a single fluorescent light, half-broken chairs and a solitary table scarred with overlapping teacup rings, the room defused all expectations of literary glamour.

Some worry that the increasingly cozy relationship between Hollywood and publishing companies is changing expectations of literary success — and may even be changing the way novelists approach their work.

I'd like the same expectation of literary quality to be applied to biography as to fiction: the same desire for innovation, range and surprise.

His narrator's language owes much to the influence of his native idiom, in which he is renowned for his use of earthy colloquialisms that derail the reader's expectations of conventional literary language.

It just seems absurd to compare two such different art forms and feel so let down when a literary adaptation doesn't meet your expectations.

In the US, too, there's an expectation that a great literary work will also be physically imposing.