Sentence examples for novel stuff from inspiring English sources

This was novel stuff: it implied that the government would allow foreign takeovers and would countenance lending based on borrowers' commercial rather than political credentials.One year on, however, the deal is in limbo.

Selznick, who wore a flannel shirt and had a Philippa Gregory novel stuffed in the back of his jeans, peered through mounted V.R. goggles.

This is all solid, satisfying novel-stuff, and in this last book something very rare has been added to it.

"So Blue" is like a lot of first novels, stuffed to shapelessness with everything the author knows.

(He drew on his experience for his 1987 novel "The Stuff of Heroes").

Sharpe's 1982 novel Vintage Stuff was an excellent send-up of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond and John Buchan's Richard Hannay.

In fact it was dull, and the so-called novel technological stuff deeply old hat - particularly compared with what was happening in the theatre.

Huston wisely stayed close to Dashiell Hammett's splendid novel: "The stuff that dreams are made of," as Spade puts it.

I grew up reading Trevanian, the guy who wrote "Eiger Sanction," pulp spy novels and stuff, and that is how I learned to write.

In a novel so stuffed with incident, it is these lonely and isolated characters, not the power-brokers and celebrities, who most come alive.

He talked off the cuff, referring to the players as "protagonists," as if the match were an epic novel, and stuffing captured pieces into his pocket.