A purely visual, spatial intelligence, such as he had, was not enough: if you really wanted people in this country to understand and respect your work, you had to be able to explain it in words, and to do so in the urbane, hyper-literate manner favoured by the British intelligentsia.
"I mean literally literate".
But Juno, for me, is really about sex - teenage sex, inexperienced sex - and manages to be about all this without showing a great deal of it because it's such a literate comedy of manners Although Juno doesn't close with a sex scene, the ending left me feeling nostalgic about my first sexually active summer.
The voice of Wimbledon broadcasts is Dan Maskell, who is knowledgeable, gentlemanly in manner and literate.
He is a literate, gracious, kind man with wonderful manners and he speaks beautifully - when he wants to.
She was literate and apparently a stickler for manners, at least on the evidence of her children's upbringing.
For a person who is quantitatively literate, mathematics is viewed more as a way of thinking and reasoning, as dynamic and open for discussion and new discoveries, instead of a static set of predetermined facts and formulas that are passed along in an authoritarian manner to be memorized.
His pantheon of highly literate heroines would be at home in Austen's world of manners and unrequited passions.
But Millepied sees Cunningham's collaboration with Rauschenberg as a model for how dance can make a claim for itself — not by pandering, in the manner of "Dancing with the Stars," but by drawing in audiences who are literate in other spheres of the arts.
In the manner of the Huffington Post, it built a stable of free contributors, bores and semi-literates and inveterate self-promoters who nevertheless provide ever-more search links to the site.
