Sentence examples for literature down from inspiring English sources

It brings literature down to earth.

"Shylock: victim or villain?" is up there with "Is Hamlet mad?" as a contender for the most well-worn (and reductive) exam question to be thrown at students of English literature down the decades.

Vague remarks of the same loosely metaphysical sort have continued to be a feature of the literature down to the present.

He concludes his discussion of the ordinary Greek notion of soul by claiming that apart from a passage in Sophocles' Philoctetes, there is no place in Greek non-philosophical literature down to the end of the fifth century "where it is even suggested that the 'soul' has anything to do with knowledge or ignorance, goodness or badness" (Burnet 1916, 256).

Halloween, since its first appearance in print in the mid-16th century, has turned up in literature down the ages.

"What do you think literature boils down to?" he asks.

Applications for European languages and literature are down 11% to 21,675.

"More than 500 pages of relentless socialist manifesto masquerading as literature crammed down your throat," found Moir.

Although American literature put down strong roots during the 19th century, piracy from Britain rose to great heights.

In my years in academia, I had watched the study of literature go down any number of rabbit holes — chasing after theory and ideology and system.

In it, Lewes gave a survey of what he called "the field of female literature," touching down upon the works of George Sand, Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen, whose novels he had been championing for years.