Sentence examples for literature lost from inspiring English sources

With his death, African literature lost one of its best writers and most ferocious satirists, whose novels received numerous literary awards.

Literature lost a great deal as a result of this scientific urge, and political and economic thought may have lost even more; for example, the ability to be understood, and perhaps applied, by men of affairs and leaders of nations.

"The past 20 years has seen the humanities getting narrower and narrower," said John M. Ellis, a retired professor of German literature at the University of California Santa Cruz and author of "Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities" (Yale University Press, 1999).

With the death of Gore Vidal, US literature loses a master of contempt.

"I've always done other things because I knew dramatic literature loses interest in older women characters quite quickly.

David Zimmer, a professor of comparative literature, loses his wife and two children in a plane crash; he is considering suicide when he sees a silent-film clip that makes him laugh.

And there is a bitter debate about whether requiring students to read more "informational texts" will mean that great literature loses out in the classroom.In April the Republican National Committee passed a resolution opposing the Common Core.

Great literature: once lost, now found.

Fortunately for the cause of literature, he lost.

Much literature was lost in the sack of Ayutthaya by Hsinbyushin of Myanmar (Burma) in 1767.

In the New York Times, Salman Rushdie identified her straightforwardly with "the fairy queen", adding that "English literature has lost its high sorceress, its benevolent white witch".