Sentence examples for literary substance from inspiring English sources

Friends tell me the best of his literary substance is there".

And in 1980 "Heart Beat," about Kerouac's life, was derided by critics as having about as much literary substance as a Tic Tac.

And this, in turn, presents readers with an interesting puzzle: If Joop is not lying, Anne Frank is being used as the novelist's bait to lure us into a story that would have had more literary substance and originality without her presence.

The series has garnered some notoriety both over its literary substance and over the type of relationship portrayed in the books.

He also revealed literary and philosophical substance in it that gave form to my inchoate experience.

And when Malcomson has nothing new to say he tends to substitute literary preciosity for substance, a fault that nearly undid his two previous books.

That undeserved slight certainly had more to do with literary style than moral substance.

Energetic metaphors animate disputes and rivalries among the long-dead: "While Møller" — Peder Ludvig Møller, a raffish literary rival — "had wasted his substance on the many bedsheets of Copenhagen, Kierkegaard gathered his own into his trusty silver pen, which released its contents with bold virtuosity onto sheets of paper that will survive even the forgetfulness of history".

Now, alcohol and writing is a classic combination, but that may be more due to alcohol being a convenient painkiller for an anguish-stained lifestyle than with any literary-enhancing properties of the substance.

He argues that part of the problem is that teachers are asking students to read less, which means less substance — whether historical, political or literary — to focus a term paper on.

By substituting dynamic Life for Spinoza's Substance Nietzsche required all that ordinary and literary language offered.