Sentence examples for literary gesture from inspiring English sources

This seems an excessive punishment for a literary gesture.

For better or worse, Rousseau gave impetus to the transformation of "confession" into a secular, public, and purely literary gesture.

"We value all human endeavours undertaken with intellectual rigour, vision and a nod to the whimsical," is Aesop's philosophy, and its stores, website and bi-monthly literary gesture The Fabulist all live and breathe it.

Critical of the literary gesture of writers who hope to avoid sexist language by recourse to rhetorical disclaimers, feminist authors argue that it is not persuasive simply to declare that the concept of God transcends gender and, therefore, "he" is not literally male, and then to presume that all can go on as before.

In an interview with the New York Times, Aoki explains that he wanted to pay homage to Beat poetry; what this literary gesture actually summons is the ghost of your high school ex who ditched you to smoke Salvia in the photo darkroom.

In an interview with the New York Times, Aoki explains that he wanted to pay homage to Beat poetry; what this literary gesture actually summons is the ghost of your high school ex who ditched you to smoke salvia in the photo darkroom.

That is bad for us but good for posterity and for students of the literary gestures we imprudently put in pixels.

He was still young, and still brilliant; his gargantuan novel, Infinite Jest, and his remarkable short stories, displayed a startling originality in an age of increasingly predictable literary gestures.

Gemmell is good at sensuous detail and body language, but the "you" voice, with its gesture at literary fiction, sometimes makes the action teeter at the edge of comedy: "Now you're wandering his house, agitated, the air laden with its coming storm … you can read the sky.

His former editor, Diana Athill, says rather brutally: 'I simply could not allow myself not to like him.' Paul Theroux, another former friend, wrote an entire book, Sir Vidia's Shadow, painfully anatomising the secrets of their friendship in a monumental gesture of literary pique.

The Nation Magazine's current poetry critic, Ange Mlinko, attempted recently to revise the reputation of the late poet Adrienne Rich (and her Later Poems: Selected & New, from W.W. Norton, 2012) in a wandering self-congratulatory gesture at literary analysis.