Sentence examples for literary justification from inspiring English sources

That's the literary justification.

But let's say you're traveling on a budget, or you're cheap, and you'd like a literary justification for booking into a hotel where Continental breakfast means walking to the corner deli.

Since so far there is no literary justification for the hack job Seán has made of a literary masterpiece, it looks like payback time.

This justification of a literary fraud on the ground that it is true to the writer's interior world — a world that helps the author "cope" or "survive" — strikingly echoes the self-defense offered by Frey.

Boccaccio, himself a naturalist and a realist, here subtly adopts the painter's achievement as a justification for his own literary style.

As with the rabbinical critique, there is some historical justification, but both are sociopolitical, not literary; they are in fact anti-literary.

Literary language itself now demands a pathologic justification, such that one of McEwan's neuro-narrators, having fancily likened silence to paint, adds, "This synesthesia must have been due to my disorientation".

Roman satire is hardly more determinate in its structure than in its style; the poems are so haphazardly organized, so randomly individual, that there seems little justification for speaking of them as a literary kind at all.

Justification for his role rests on the premise that literary works are not in fact self-explanatory.

With his "Responding to Criticism" (Ying jian 應間), a work modeled on Yang Xiong's "Justification Against Ridicule", Zhang was an early writer and proponent of the Chinese literary genre shelun, or hypothetical discourse.

Abelard became the abbot of the new community and provided it with a rule and with a justification of the nun's way of life; in this he emphasized the virtue of literary study.