Sentence examples for literary strength from inspiring English sources

Pinter's literary strength — his easy access to his own turbulent internal climate — has also been his public weakness.

Hartley's greatest literary strength comes from the living he has done; many M.F.A.-programmed writers would trade a limb for just a month's worth of his stories.

And then the new Gospel casts a spell — for sympathetic freethinkers, especially — because it reminds us of the literary strength of the canonic Gospels, exactly for their marriage of the celestial and the commonplace.

"Good writing should be able to stand on its own, not on the literary strength of a country, and therein lies the challenge": Kelvin Odoobo on how to be a writer in Africa.

"What's most amazing about the novel is that, despite its humor and playfulness and literary strength, it's really a novel about how people approach life and reality," he says.

And then the new Gospel casts a spell for sympathetic freethinkers, especially because it reminds us of the literary strength of the canonic Gospels, exactly for their marriage of the celestial and the commonplace.

Critics agree that the value of the book is historical rather than literary; its strength lies chiefly in its vivid re-creation of life in a section of New York City.

Yet another striking analogy involves the fact that the politically dominant majority of Singapore's population consists not of indigenous natives but of "overseas" Han Chinese," whose literary and commercial strengths long ago earned them the sobriquet "the Jews of Southeast Asia" and the envy and resentment due a wealthy, elitist, and supple minority.

While his literary career was going from strength to strength, the same could not be said of his personal life.

Robin Ince looks at the roots of a literary tradition that goes from strength to strength.

Even Updike's failures - say, the bizarre middle section of Rabbit Redux where the ordinary-Joe American hero shacks up with a runaway hippy and a black radical - testifies to a strength, his literary daring: rather than staying safe in the suburbs (a locale that he knew better than any writer) he was constantly taking risks by tackling characters and environments far outside his comfort range.