Sentence examples for references can feel from inspiring English sources
Hospital, professor and writer-in-residence at the University of South Carolina, crams her novel with historical and literary allusions, quoting Camus, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, and Alice In Wonderland, among others, but the references can feel heavy-handed.
And while Ms. Messud does an intricate job of mapping her heroine's inner life, the literary references can sometimes feel horribly heavy-handed: it's hard to forget that the whiny narrator is a woman named Nora, who just happens to build little dioramas that look like dollhouses.
As it's related to publishing, I think magazines really benefit from having a staff with a range of different perspectives and cultural references so that any reader can feel like there is someone on the masthead they can relate to, someone they can trust to speak up for them.
At times, he said, the network can feel "like watching televised Pravda at the height of the Brezhnev era," a reference to the old Soviet propaganda arm.
