Sentence examples for rate novel from inspiring English sources

Hybrid plants can show enhanced growth rate, novel phenotypes or adaptive advantages in diverse environments.

Gene dosage and varying the copy number of genes was used to establish a logical model of the yeast mitotic cell cycle in a recent study that aimed to identify the genes having the greatest control over cell growth rate; novel tetraploid-specific phenotypes were also identified using this approach (Alcasabas et al., our unpublished data).

Few academic critics rate novels by the sophistication of their plots.

This is a first-rate novel with a second-rate subject: the American man's suburban malaise.

All in all, an amusing but second-rate novel from one of Britain's funniest writers.

Many, at any rate, would say that it does not: that a tenth-rate novel might give more facts about 18th-century life than a first-rate novel of the same century.

I pray that none of them wins the Man Booker for his collected body of work with a second-rate novel.

For me, though, this interesting material wasn't quite enough to catapult it into the realms of a really first-rate novel.

Peter Harris, an ordinary-sounding name for an unexceptional man, is the second-rate character at the heart of Michael Cunningham's less than first-rate novel.

The same might be said of Nabokov — for "Camera Obscura" shows that he was indeed capable of writing a second-rate novel.

It is this depth that makes "Boy21" more than a first-rate novel fueled by basketball; it's a first-rate work of art.