Sentence examples for novel tack from inspiring English sources

The plaintiffs used a novel tack that won them a $10.1 billion verdict in 2003.

The Department of Justice is also getting creative and taking a novel tack.

Though the novel tack raises issues that a judge on June 6 agreed to resolve, Mr. Picard has again shown a creative touch in beating the bushes for cash.

But it also takes the novel tack of comparing the situation to the Justice Department's recent lawsuit charging Apple and five major publishers with collusion in setting the price of e-books.

Werner Goebel and his colleagues at the University of Würzburg in Germany took a novel tack: They engineered the Listeria bacteria--a notorious contaminant of meat and dairy products--to turn one of its weapons on itself.

Sensing futility in preceding any further, the BLM took a novel tack: It let citizens take the lead.

But instead of taking satirical potshots at the central character's cluelessness, Janet Maslin writes, Mr. Dahlie's debut novel takes a surprising tack: It deals affectionately with his frailties.

Tracy Chevalier steers her novel deliberately close and tacks abruptly away.

Mr. Doctorow, best known for works of historical fiction like "World's Fair," which won the National Book Award for fiction, appears to be taking a new tack in the novel, "Andrew's Brain".

Now, in her own second novel, Kathleen Cambor takes a similar tack, drawing all the epigraphs for the chapters in "In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden" from the writings of Marcus Aurelius.

Ms. Lessing took a similar tack in her 1999 novel "Mara and Dann," a fable set in the distant future, thousands and thousands of years after a great ice age has destroyed civilization.