Sentence examples for literary thing from inspiring English sources

So Romer's poems are literary to find out what this literary thing could be about.

This is also a book about a scene — the Brooklyn literary thing — in which we meet people through their bookcases: "Borges, Boswell, Bulgakov... marked with yellow 'used' stickers from the Brown bookstore".

Jonathan Coe Some of the most important publishing events take place quietly, behind the scenes, far away from the clamour and hype surrounding prize announcements and the impatient quest for the Next Big Literary Thing.

After all, lots of literary things have happened on most days.

"I don't like to read," Mr. Daly said, "but it" -- the script -- "was one of the few literary things I just couldn't put down".

A Morning Call sketch published Aug. 23, 1864, gives some sense of why Twain failed to cut it as a newsman — and why he went on to bigger literary things.

He told Lowell's biographer Ian Hamilton: "I could see he was mad, the things he was saying, and I suddenly felt that all of our long conversations about literary things, about what we were going to do with our lives, at Kenyon, I felt they were all nonsense.

Backstage, after the show, we were chatting about movies and literary things.

Yes, after experiencing novels that meaty, it was time to "put away childish (literary) things".

Iain Banks is a belligerent Scotsman whose place in the late-20th-century order of literary things is incredibly unique.

He joins a select crew of successful white male actors who think they have very literary things to say, and who have therefore been offered hardcover book deals with blurbs by Salman Rushdie. .