Sentence examples for novel wants from inspiring English sources
The novel wants to sweep everything into its mighty embrace — shores, mountains, continents.
Much as Zama wants a promotion, the unnamed narrator of this novel wants quiet — that's all.
But the novel wants to disturb any sense of what might constitute "a consensus view of reality," the better to depict the instabilities of a perforated mind.
Mr. Wang, in adapting "Orphan" from his novel, wants to move in a direction wholly different from that of Chen Kaige, for whom he was an assistant.
Is there not a feeling that the novel wants to teach Bliss - and us - a ponderous lesson in the importance of remembering one's own?
But that's what the novel wanted to be.
I wonder if this novel wanted all along to be a play.
No doubt many who bought Updike's novel wanted an answer to Beigbeder's question.
My only response is that this is what the novel wanted and needed.
But that's what the novel wanted to be.... It's the contrarian in me, I'm afraid".
