Sentence examples for literary original from inspiring English sources

The success of a film which on every level respects its literary original hints that Le Carré's long-term prospects now look rosy again.

This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original.

Since this film first appeared, the director has indicated that it should not be read too closely in tandem with the literary original, and that this was effectively a starting-off point.

At no point is there any doubt that the director, however inspired by the literary original, is acting from anything other than his deepest impulses as a maker of moving pictures.

This second movie in the Dreamworks version of Cressida Cowell's How To Train Your Dragon books is an efficient and entertaining franchise sequel, but it restates how conventionally Americanised this property has become in comparison with the literary original – far less quirky than Cowell's writing, and certainly less than her engagingly lo-fi Milliganesque illustrations.

Obviously this mad scientist lacks the moral ambiguity of the literary original.

Her summary judgments on these literary originals fail to convince.

If you're a Vonnegut fan, or a Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury, Alex Haley fan -- to name a very few -- then you won't read some of their great literary originals, in many nations, including China, India and Singapore.

Johnson even manages some original literary criticism.

His quest was always for an original literary voice.

In three of his most original literary works, the relationship with Héloïse is a prominent feature.