Sentence examples for novelistic figure from inspiring English sources

Yet she remains a novelistic figure.

Miller's twist is to tell the epic story of Achilles – a "godling" born of a nymph, fated for military glory and early death – in a lyric mode, from the perspective of that classic novelistic figure, the sensitive bystander.

In a way, Beginners is a rather literary movie, in which Oliver is a novelistic narrator figure, a figure who does the noticing and the remembering, but seems to be himself an unreadable presence.

But I do think farce is an underrated novelistic form.

His methods are different, and his conception of the novelistic form is very much his own.

Novelistic form is, in some ways, the achievement of this deep, patient rhythm.

Aury succeeds in giving her book a novelistic shape.

When the war ended, Mr. Sheehan was determined to write not just a reporter's memoir but a defining history, and he found in Lt. Col. John Paul Vann a central figure of novelistic complexity — idealistic and heroic but also vain, duplicitous and self-deluded — a symbol of America's entire involvement in the war.

Voigt, one realizes, is really writing something more quietly novelistic than fablelike in form.

Modern anime began in 1956 and found lasting success in 1961 with the establishment of Mushi Productions by Osamu Tezuka, a leading figure in modern manga, the dense, novelistic Japanese comic book style that contributed greatly to the aesthetic of anime.

The hacker's dream is also Mr. Stephenson's novelistic terrain, and it has helped make him a cult figure among the digerati.