Sentence examples for novel feeling from inspiring English sources

Since that scene never comes, you close this otherwise estimable novel feeling oddly cheated.

Approaching adulthood in a socially conservative black Christian community, each begins the novel feeling lost.

So we close this novel feeling that the soda bread was nice, but not quite a full meal.

Ireland huffed, puffed but could not avoid the frustration that stopped being a novel feeling for their manager long ago.

There is that 'only a novel' feeling - that compared to the real events of life, novels are rather trivial things that you recreate yourself with, objects of entertainment.

One comes to the end of the novel feeling that its provocative and entertaining scenes have been little more than thought experiments themselves.

Wilson preferred happy endings in his novels, feeling that happiness was truer to America.

I pass through his novels feeling a mixture of wonder, calmness and disturbance; I end them brain-jarred and unsettled.

But you may put this novel down feeling not quite as convinced as King clearly is.

Many readers will know the experience of setting out on the latest Ian McEwan novel and feeling caught – compelled.

Description is Freund's forte; many of her characters, however, are thinly sketched, giving her novel the feeling of a shadow-puppet play with elaborately painted sets.