Sentence examples for literati for from inspiring English sources
I had a chance to play with a production model of The Literati for a few minutes.
And it's radical that he wrote it in a women's magazine, a category of media that's been written off as fluff by political literati for practically as long as they've been around.
The Sahitya Academy had been criticised by India's literati for its silence over the murders of writers including MM Kalburgi, a secular scholar who was shot dead in August, allegedly by Hindu radicals.
He is co-writer of Mr. Anderson's next film, an animated version of Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox," and he has been hired to write an adaptation of "The Emperor's Children," Claire Messud's novel set among the floundering younger generation of New York literati, for Ron Howard to direct.
Catherine was socially prominent among the powerful and celebrated among the literati for the years before she married, and her husband was among the wealthiest men of London.
It caused not only considerable resentment in the short term, but, more ominously, brought about immense dislike of Qin and of Legalism among the overwhelming majority of the imperial literati for millennia to come (Pines 2014a).
IN THEIR ghetto of crumbling tenement blocks in Amman, Baghdad's exiled literati gathered for their first umsiya, or cultural soirée, since liberation.
Wang Hui was a dazzling prodigy whose landscapes included successful forgeries of Bei Song and Yuan masters and who did not hesitate to market the "amateur" practice, both among fellow scholars and at the Manchu court; however, the hardening of his style in his later years foreshadowed the decline of Qing literati painting for lack of flexible innovation.
Wikipedia tags it as an "absurdist" drama, which is literati code for "don't expect to be as entertained by this as you might be by Diehard.
As part of Nook Farm, a hilltop enclave off Farmington Avenue, the Twain house and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House were gathering places for the literati from all over the world.
In the beginning of the 19th century, it also emerged as a destination for the European literati abroad — an enclave for poets and writers that, over the years, has included notables like Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and D. H. Lawrence.
