Sentence examples for novel attempts from inspiring English sources

Only one sentence in the novel attempts description - something anatomical.

Fiona Maazel's debut novel attempts a doubled apocalyptic vision of our American times.

The hero of Hutchins's clever and entertaining first novel attempts to give a computer a truly human intelligence.

The novel attempts to follow in the footsteps of the greatest war novels – depicting diverse characters flung together, far from home.

Crofton is both antiheroic in sentiment and heroic in act, and in a subtle way the novel attempts to be a tale of each, shot and recoil.

Where the Great American Novel attempts to map the moral landscape of post-war America, she captures the moments that shape individual lives.

Similarly, the realist novel attempted to dissolve whatever smacked of literariness.

He spends the rest of the novel attempting to find things that might not only consume but devour him.

In the period 1830 80, prose was dominated by two opposing trends: the historical novel attempted to present a glorious picture of the Greek past while novels set in the present tended to be satirical or picaresque in nature.

Not much success was expected from this novel attempt, but finally news came in from the Grand Duchy of Baden that the suspect had been recognized in the village where he had lived.

May 7, 1812 Shrewsbury, England December 14 , 1885Bray, Ireland Sir Arthur Purves Phayre, (born May 7 , 1812 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng. died Dec. 14, 1885, Bray, County Wicklow, Ire)., British commissioner in Burma (Myanmar), who made a novel attempt to spread European education through traditional Burmese institutions.