Sentence examples for novelistic features from inspiring English sources

Leonard's novels are not, especially, thrillers; they are almost completely lacking in the puzzle element and the meretricious wielding of that most boring of novelistic features, mystery.

Quite a few readers would be prepared to yawn at a novelistic scene set in 1530, featuring Thomas Cromwell, then one of Henry VIII's privy councillors, and Thomas Cranmer, the Anglican theologian who gained renown as the author of the Book of Common Prayer.

The reporting behind those articles is the greatest strength of the book, but it reads more like a disjointed string of newspaper features than a single, novelistic narrative.

Her songs often feature characters that feel novelistic in their realisation.

Exploring poetry's vibrant exchanges with other forms of writing, Ramazani shows how poetry assimilates features of prose fiction but differentiates itself from novelistic realism; metabolizes aspects of theory and philosophy but refuses their abstract procedures; and recognizes itself in the verbal precision of the law even as it separates itself from the law's rationalism.

But at their best, mini-series became a genuinely stirring, populist art form -- a novelistic variation on water-cooler programming, as cinematically ambitious as feature films.

Paul Verlaine featured him in his anthology of "poètes maudits," and J. K. Huysmans's novelistic manual of decadence, "Against the Grain," glorified him as the ne plus ultra of esoteric refinement.

His reasons are novelistic.

Better still, it feels novelistic.

creaking signs and a novelistic breeze.

"Indian cinema isn't novelistic.