Sentence examples for literary hand from inspiring English sources

What makes it distinctively Barkeresque is that she throws a literary hand grenade into the form of the historical novel as we know it.

At the end of the 8th century the Carolingian (Caroline) hand developed and, after becoming the official script and literary hand of the Frankish empire, developed as the main book hand of western Europe in the following two centuries.

The Leviticus and other small Early Hebrew fragments found in the Dead Sea caves, which are probably from the 3rd century bce, are the only remains of what is considered to be the Early Hebrew book, or literary, hand.

His father, from whom Borges inherited an eye condition that left him blind by the age of 55, was "a marginally successful literary hand – a few poems, a so-so historical novel, and the first translation of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat into Spanish," says Donald A Yates, one of Borges' first American translators.

Imagine Petra's surprise when she learns that Bill, who goes along for the ride, was the letter writer, the literary hand of David Cassidy.

The articulation of a regulative ideal became Havel's strong suit, and it was something that took on a charming form in his skilled literary hands.

Only the most skillful literary hands should attempt the combination of flat-out farce and genuine emotion; Keillor, like Larry McMurtry in "Terms of Endearment," is up to the job.

In Dr. Dean's deft literary hands, months spent skiing in Aspen after winning a 1-Y deferment from Vietnam for a bad back becomes a "sojourn in the mountains," a quasi-spiritual quest tantamount to a stint in the Peace Corps, if not an ashram.