Sentence examples for literary lying from inspiring English sources

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".

What's your biggest literary lie?

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

Formalist theorists have maintained that the uniqueness of the literary lies in the special nature of literary language.

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.

Some of this "hard luck" included getting fired from his Pullman porter job because he stole $5 out of a woman's purse, bouncing checks, failing to pay authors for literary rights, lying constantly and possibly committing bigamy.

His own literary contribution lay in his topical polemical writings.

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

Its real literary value lies in the Characters, ultimately 82, that were added to the second and subsequent editions.

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".