Sentence examples for literary lie from inspiring English sources

What's your biggest literary lie?

Erofeyev created a hugely negative folk tale through which he protested against the literary lie.

A healthy literary lie often makes the speaker look more ridiculous than his fellows; an evil political lie makes its teller seem like a master of men.

At times, her imagery becomes extravagantly literary: lying in her black room, enshrouded in clothing, she describes herself as "a sumptuous creature, all set to be the heroine of a novel by Sir Walter Scott, or some other Gothic tale, involving dungeons, dark towers, wicked uncles, imperilled innocence and rustling silks".

He wrote a blistering letter to Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, accusing the powerful literary union of "lies, lies, lies, bad manners and lies".

His own literary contribution lay in his topical polemical writings.

"There is something literary that lies behind each image, making these paintings especially meaningful".

Ford Madox Ford wrote that the author's literary gift lay in the "sheer magic of implication".

Anthony Burgess once wrote that the novel's literary singularity lay in "the tension between heroic form and unheroic content".

The best defense of literary freedoms lies in their exercise, in continuing to make untrammelled, uncowed books.

He seems to be creating a body of work about freakish homemade microcultures — in a country whose rich literary patrimony lies at the basis of Western civilization.