Sentence examples for rather literary from inspiring English sources

A RATHER affluent, rather literary little village".

It is a superb, rather literary moment.

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.

The other day I watched the Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy film Before Sunset, which came out last year, because I was curious about the idea of a movie whose rather literary ambition is to have a Chekhovian openness.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, May 2 , 1942P. 9 Dr. Spencer Cowles Body and Mind Foundation, now apparently in difficulties with the law, has always had a rather literary air about it.

This is a narrative trajectory which gives Meadows's film a rather literary feel, like a dark short story or a novella, and perhaps this medium would have more satisfactorily absorbed the unedifying and scalp-tinglingly unpleasant flourish of violence that is this film's conclusion.

At Graham's and elsewhere, Poe wrote a prodigious amount of rather extraordinary literary criticism.

But if people preferred a realistic rather than literary lineage for Chan, so be it.

Modern technology, rather than literary history, is fuelling an upsurge in poetry.

But no: McKenzie's concern is resolutely historical rather than literary.

It's a matter of temperament, I suppose, rather than literary judgment.