Sozomen possibly intended to recast Socrates' work in a superior literary style for an audience not only of ecclesiastics but also of the cultured laity.
She surrounded herself with superior literary types and high-brows, and was embarrassed by the crude, populist appeal of Bond, forcing Fleming to be dismissive of his own work.
O'Connor is a colossal figure in American letters -- not only because of her superior literary craftwork, but because she resides in the Holy of Holies in the hierarchy of writers of Catholic fiction.
At golf, Wilson describes him as a "reasonably good player", but his handicap of six makes him superior to other obsessive literary golfers such as PG Wodehouse and Ian Fleming, and only a little inferior to Malcolm Lowry and Patrick Hamilton, who were golfers as well as drinkers of championship class.
Finally, Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, proceeded to throw kerosene on the smouldering wreck by claiming, in the course of some snooty and ill-judged remarks to the diners in the London ceremony held in Roth's absence, that the prize he's been in charge of for the past several years was now the world's premier literary trophy, superior in fact to the Nobel.
Don't act superior because of your literary culture.
Evidently blessed with superior stamina, Donald Rayfield in the Literary Review had no complaints at all as he acclaimed "this superb and authoritative work".
In 1874, after his first real success with "Far From the Madding Crowd," serialized by Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf's father, in the prestigious Cornhill magazine, Hardy married Emma Lavinia Gifford, his social superior and a woman with literary ambitions, mostly for her husband.
Despite my professed admiration for many genre writers, I was blasted for thinking that literary fiction is superior to genre fiction, and for not noticing that the zeitgeist had come and gone while I was presumably immersed in "The Golden Bowl".
They refer fondly to golden ages in which giants like Marshall, Holmes and Cardozo spoke in strong voices that left you feeling you had been exposed to works of literary art as well as superior jurisprudence.
"The result... is far superior to all but the very greatest of literary biographies," Hilton Kramer wrote here.
