Sentence examples for literary principle from inspiring English sources

Acknowledging the age-old literary principle that "happiness writes white", Grandma's House manages to turn the awkwardness and embarrassment that is the common currency of so many families into highly amusing comedy.

But in reality, alas, she was; she violated that literary principle — wasn't it Chekhov's — that a loaded gun hanging on the wall in the first act must go off in the last.

And I've sometimes wondered if all our rash chatter about art and risk and courage, and the way we turned rashness into a literary principle, hadn't egged her on.

Giraldi was influenced by the revival of Aristotelian literary principles after the publication in Latin of the original text of Aristotle's Poetics in 1536.

The Romantic Théophile Gautier and the Naturalist Émile Zola have more in common than they have differences, and their differences are rather because of changes in society as a whole than because of conflicting literary principles.

They want to spread a message to kids who have been victims in Eastern Europe: "You are not alone". So you're not compromising any literary principles — this is a different gig altogether.

Yet creative writing courses are often seen as being somehow bogus, as even threatening those literary principles they set out to enshrine, though the truth is that the separation of literary from popular values in writing has been virtually impossible to bring about.

The French, who distrust our Municipal Literary Awards on principle, were slow to translate and publish "The Juggler's Family".

Borovikovsky's portrait of Catherine, painted in 1794 in accordance with the principles of his literary friends and presented to the empress, was the first emergence of sentimentalism in painting.

Hang on, is he proposing this as a basic principle of literary composition?

He believed in the cardinal principle of literary journalism, which is that any subject can be made interesting to any educated person by good writing.