Sentence examples for testing literary from inspiring English sources

Testing Literary Waters On the side, Mr. McCourt made fitful stabs at writing.

It was, he said, "the most testing literary exercise I have undergone".

But, of course, "coolness" is not really a valid test for literary worth (or anything else for that matter, except trousers).

As a test of literary knowledge it was only one up from "Is Hamlet a place or a prince?", "Who kills Desdemona?" or "Is Henry V a war criminal?" (OK, I'll come clean: the last is the title of my latest book).

But The Quality of Silence (Little, Brown, £14.99) is disappointing: thin and frictionless, its anti-fracking message delivered with the limpid simplicity of the Young Adult novel it would surely be revealed as, were scientists ever to test its literary DNA.

A digital reading platform that embeds interactive vocabulary assessments and comprehension tests in literary texts may guide young readers to "just right" books, and may give teachers insight into their students' reading stamina and their progression from one "Lexile level" — a measure of literacy — to another.

The tax code defines public charities as organizations that are "religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition or prevention of cruelty to animals".

The federal tax code defines nonprofits as organizations that are "religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition or prevention of cruelty to animals".

I told Lawrence--or Larry as we later called him--that I was reluctant to say anything about falling down like an idiot, but I was equally worried that another later Fellow--after all, I was part of the first graduating class, a test group of sorts, a literary astronaut, testing the program for flaws--might repeat my stumble.

Mr. Salinger himself passes his unorthodox literary test with flying colors; this reader would certainly like to call him up.

THE news that New York high-school tests had sanitized literary passages drew the usual huffing about the fate of the republic.