Sentence examples for literati of from inspiring English sources

An unexpected spat has broken out amongst the literati of Wales.

The best sellers of pre-Revolutionary France were largely ignored by literati of the time and by literary tradition since.

The chair of the Man Booker judges, thriller writer and former MI5 director Dame Stella Rimington, countered by accusing the London literati of elitism.

There is a society in St. Andrews called the Literati of the Links whose members meet now and again to talk golf history and discuss one another's monographs.

Rózewicz aligns this account with his struggles as a writer; his ostracism from the socialist-realist literati of the early 1950s.

During the latter clerkship, Griffith was exposed to the literati of Louisville and to the actors and actresses who played at Louisville's Temple Theatre.

Versed in Chinese painting and poetry of all periods, but especially that of the literati artists of the Ming and Qing dynasties; familiar with the reigning schools of official Japanese art; inculcated with Neo-Confucian thought and interested in Daoism and Buddhism, Taiga was exceptionally erudite but not an aesthete; his work often has a visceral directness.

While there were two main traditions in painting in the Ming period, that of "literati painting" (wenrenhua) of the Wu school and that of the "professional academics" (huayuanpai) associated with the Zhe school, artists generally stressed independent creation, impressing their work with strong marks of their personal styles.

But they quickly spread via Twitter, electrifying Chinese literati, many of whom had been critical of his close relationship to the Communist Party, especially Mr. Mo's role as vice chairman of the government-run Chinese Writers Associationn.

With the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618 907) and the founding of the Song (960 1279), Chan fortunes continued to swell as a "homegrown" form of Chinese Buddhism that fit well into the literati mission of using ancestral cultural traditions (guwen) to craft a new imperial identity for China.

Not the Birkenstocked, literati part of Park Slope, but Fifth Avenue, at that time a dodgy strip of boarded-up windows, five-and-dimes and unconvincing Chinese takeout.