Sentence examples for literary potential from inspiring English sources

That you're not living up to your full literary potential.

Once he accepted the diagnosis, he began to explore its literary potential.

6. Compose a poem There is plenty of literary potential in your predicament.

The result was a kind of "continuous incoherence," to borrow Howell's phrase, that let Twain realize the rich literary potential of the American vernacular.

Katherine Anne Porter's exquisite short novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider remains, rather curiously, one of the few fictions of the 20th century to exploit the literary potential of the cataclysmic influenza pandemic of 1918.

" As the N.B.A. journeyman-turned-blogger-turned-memoirist Paul Shirley has proved, the athlete with the most literary potential is the one sitting at the end of the bench.

Any potential literary angels, however, may note that they are arriving in a bustling marketplace.

But Bearden recognized the medium as a potential literary vehicle, a narrative device, for synthesizing high formal values with a new strain of social history.

The explanation would seem to be "Wainewright's" very stylistic and historical plausibility and the scholarly care that Mr. Motion has taken undermine the literary and psychodramatic potential of his story.

Its financial woes are forcing Waterstone's, however tentatively, to return to what made it so popular in the first place: knowledgeable staff, hospitable stores, and a love of literary fiction with popular potential.

Established three years ago with a gift from the late novelist Donald Windham, in memory of his partner Sandy M Campbell, the annual prize honours nine writers from any country who write in English, for their "literary achievements or their potential" in fiction, nonfiction or drama.