Sentence examples for literary is from inspiring English sources
The literary is assumed to be cerebral and artistic, the commercial mindless and entertaining.
"I think literary is shorthand for appreciated, and commercial is shorthand for sells.
The distinction between popular and literary is often blurred, but I'll hazard to make one.
Of those, James's influence – intellectual if not literary – is probably the most evident in this book.
The most obviously literary is Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, winner of the Costa and longlisted for the Man Booker.
So literary is the town of Folkestone that its Christmas lights are being switched on by a famous novelist.
Hardwick's work is the pre-eminent example of what can result when intelligence-literary is brought to bear on the sideshows of American history.
His daring - actual and literary - is underwritten by an awareness of how politics complicates empathy, and of how sympathy implicates politics.
The literary world is tiny.
Vigny's literary art is uneven.
The literary one is "unauthorized biography".
