Sentence examples for literary he from inspiring English sources

He is so precious and literary he almost squeaks.

"My films, you say, are literary," he wrote.

Both cinematic and literary, he united qualities that are these days most often seen apart.

"I've seen some that are very basic, with dates and numbers, and others are rather literary," he said.

For the literary, he could explain that it followed William Faulkner's dictum that "the best fiction is more true than any kind of journalism".

His references are not grand or literary – he mentions former England rugby coach Clive Woodward's 2004 autobiography Winning! and his theory of "critical non-essentials".

Danny and Arthur have been close friends and rivals for 40-odd years, exchanging the kind of sexual one-upmanship and intellectual banter you expect from literary he-men.

He doesn't have any literary heirs, he says, and he doesn't care.

After his marriage (1919) to Willa Anderson, Muir went to London where he wrote literary reviews; he later taught English on the Continent.

In maintaining more than 70 literary identities he called "heteronyms," he did not employ them as a mode of deception.

In his early poems his touch is often unsure, he is too "literary," and he is often constrained by rhyme.