Sentence examples for literary thinking from inspiring English sources

Unlike philosophical thinking, which demands an argument without logical flaws and contradictions, literary thinking allows you to contradict yourself.

"Your Face Tomorrow: Volume I, Fever and Spear," is Marías's most extravagant showcase for "literary thinking" so far.

** "Your Face Tomorrow: Volume I, Fever and Spear," is Marías's most extravagant showcase for "literary thinking" so far.

There is a tradition within the novel form, almost forgotten now, which embodies what I call literary thinking or literary thought.

This feeling of emotional generosity tempers the literary thinking, as do the scenes of pure comedy, like the Oxford high-table dinner in Marías's novel "All Souls," with its Buñuel-like degeneration of absurd formality into violence and contempt.

Right now, only McSweeney's excellent, more-than-just-bookish app represents real, forward literary thinking in the Books section right now.

In part it's a stroll through the literary history of thinking about mothers and daughters.

This literary persona — the thinking man's amateur — was created for him by accident, in 1989, when he discovered that it was probably the only thing he could be.

As we flicked through the literary supplements, gloomily thinking: "This 500,000 word plotless reworking of the Icelandic sagas is very well reviewed; I suppose I ought to read it", we would remember with a rush of delight that books are banned and we could simply settle down in front of an old Poirot instead.

Gold hoped to print stories that were superior to what he described as "flakes of literary dandruff" about "thinking machines that go insane when asked to solve the problem of man's survival... humorless wisecrackers, hard-lipped Space Patrolmen, nymphomaniacal heroines who are snowy pure" that Galaxy usually received.

It stopped me thinking that literary prizes are about literary value.