Sentence examples for stylish literary from inspiring English sources

In the long years of his retirement at Cambridge he capitalised on his uniquely well-stocked mind to establish himself as a stylish literary essayist.

The event was standing room only, and what I could see from my back-of-the-room perch confirmed my initial suspicion, that it would be the most stylish literary reading I attended in 2008.

Certainly it is Emma Donoghue's breakout novel, but, seemingly "inspired" by Josef Fritzl's incarceration of his daughter Elisabeth, and the cases of Natascha Kampusch and Sabine Dardenne, it's hard not to feel wary: what is such potentially lurid and voyeuristic material doing in the hands of a novelist known for quirky, stylish literary fiction?

He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary effects.

Joining a grand tradition of fantastical cats, meanwhile, Nilanjana Roy's The Wildings (Pushkin) is a stylish, bloody, literary addition, set in India and already a considerable critical success there.

He insisted, for example, that in translating this "late Tolstoy," one should not make the mistake of imposing on it a literary, stylish rhetoric, as so many translators have done.

The Quirke books are so savvy, stylish and unencumbered by literary ambition that they deliver a lot of guilty pleasure.

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Full of witty literary references and glorious illustrations, it's a stylish, gothic jewel.

Make your own stylish magazine holder, to sit next to your couch and corral literary clutter.

Instagram's most stylish accounts have been going wild today for a photograph of 80-year-old literary star Joan Didion, the new face of French fashion giant Céline.