Sentence examples for novelistic life from inspiring English sources

The first biographers who offered warts-and-all accounts, such as Catherine Carswell, whose excellent, novelistic Life of Robert Burns appeared in 1930, were challenged, and in Carswell's case physically threatened, by the older school, who wished to preserve his flimsy sainthood.

Still distressed by the deaths of Roger Fry and Julian Bell, she determined to test her theories about experimental, novelistic biography in a life of Fry.

And McCarthy's idea his novelistic picture of life's evil is limited, and literal: it is only ever of physical violence.

And in "Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia" (Thomas Dunne Books, $27.99), the veteran crime reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins spin a gripping, novelistic biography of the diminutive man behind the big mouth.

And McCarthy's idea — his novelistic picture — of life's evil is limited, and literal: it is only ever of physical violence.

He has not only a well-tuned ear for prose but a remarkable ability to convey how novelistic language transubstantiates life into literature.

She led a life of novelistic dimensions, part E. M. Forster, part Jackie Collins.

Novelistic small details of life in these two radically different worlds flowed between soldiers and their kin.

For those who appreciate an almost novelistic approach to covering life in the city, it's a new and better day.

Everyone who reads Eugene Onegin delights in the novelistic density of its life, and immediately understands how carefully Tolstoy must have studied it.

Bill interviews Zielonko in the film, and the story that emerges — along with accounts of Kitty from friends and colleagues — is a moving, novelistic vision of gay life in New York at a time when homosexuality was still illegal.