Sentence examples for novel certain from inspiring English sources

In the novel, certain longtime locals (not witches) can read a person's fate in a piece of lace.

In contention for the $60,000 prize is 87-year-old Elizabeth Harrower, whose fourth novel, Certain Circles, was published nearly four decades after her last work.

Since the application of neutron diffraction to plasma sprayed deposits is relatively novel, certain verification measurements were performed.

Certain novels, certain stories, certain essays he'd written had been permanently imprinting reading adventures for me.

But in later years, as Kureishi has turned toward the form of the novel, a certain staleness has crept in.

There's beneath even the noblest novel a certain ignoble carpentry that one's would-be saintly self resents.

The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq 345pp, Weidenfeld, £12.99 Houellebecq is a controversial writer, and his latest novel is certain to increase the controversy around him.

For instance, Abby Mann's "Judgment at Nuremberg," based primarily on his 1959 teleplay and novel and certain elements of the movie, is about accused Nazi judges.

Knopf; 291 pages; Faber & Faber; $25.95 and £18.99A READER in possession of a Jane Austen novel is certain of a good time.

The Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower, who is eighty-six and lives in Sydney, has been decidedly opaque about why she withdrew her fifth novel, "In Certain Circles" (Text), some months prior to publication, in 1971.

We could even unfavorably compare "Bergdorf Blondes" to Tama Janowitz's underrated novel, "A Certain Age" -- at the end of which the haughty Manhattan girl ends up smoking crack -- or to the slutty oeuvre of Candace Bushnell, back when she still cared to actually write.