Sentence examples for literary threads from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday three critics for The New York Times — Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic; Roberta Smith, an art critic; and Dwight Garner, a book critic — discussed the music, the art and the literary threads of the work on the ArtsBeat blog, with Daniel J. Wakin, a classical music reporter for The Times, as moderator.

My Life in Middlemarch is more than the sum of its parts, the memoir, biography and literary criticism threads weaving together into an illuminating whole.

Give us your small works of literary genius in the thread below.

"The Eclipse," which is set at an Irish literary festival, has a thread of supernatural horror running through it.

Besides its gung-ho score, what keeps its saccharine content at a tolerable level is the thread of literary whimsy that runs through Brian Hohlfeld's screenplay.

As Maria's involvement with Javier deepens, Marías draws his readers into a labyrinth of tenuous beliefs and tantalizing speculations, threaded with resonant literary allusions ("Macbeth," "The Three Musketeers," Balzac's "Le Colonel Chabert").

Based on one mere thread of the literary tapestry that is Tolstoy's War and Peace, The Great Comet has a score that artfully weaves in Russian musical idioms into what is an otherwise contemporary score.

Through all the subsequent phases of his literary life, there is a consistent character thread, which many readers have found intensely, almost viscerally, appealing.

This yearning for freedom while enduring the hardship of prison is a thread through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary lifework, which began during his eight years in Soviet labour camps.

And barring the most cinematic of texts, films developed from literary sources must run along a tighter thread.

John Gross: A Double Thread (Chatto & Windus £18.99) An influential literary critic grows up in the Jewish East End during the Second World War.