Sentence examples for literary measures from inspiring English sources

The article also compared Fleming unfavourably to John Buchan and Raymond Chandler in both moral and literary measures.

In film, he was attracted to mystics like Werner Herzog and the Catholic guilt of Martin Scorsese; in literary measures to the interrogative inquisitiveness of Studs Terkel.

"Proxopera" is by far the most memorable selection in the book, and a masterpiece by any national or international literary measure.

Forever joshing us, giving us reading lists to prove he's the expert he says the mode requires, mounting spoof cases against his client's literary merits, measuring beds, Hall turns himself into a main character.

SCOTT TUROW I have met all three of the presidential candidates, two quite briefly, but I know that each exhibits an acute literary sensibility as measured by the standard that most authors secretly employ: they are familiar with my work.

But as Renaissance Learning itself emphasizes, Accelerated Reader's formula cannot measure "literary merit for individual readers".

This scale is not designed to measure literary quality or importance.

There are many measures of literary success, but none that involve a world writers spend so much time claiming to disdain.

After graduating from Barnard College (A.B., 1922), Adams became editor of The Measure, a literary publication, in 1924.

Even the play's most famous stage direction — "They do not move" — has achieved a measure of literary fame.

This innovation adds a freshening gloss of contemporary theatricality, and a measure of literary texture, to Barrie's melancholy fantasy.