Sentence examples for typical literary from inspiring English sources

Be dismissive, and I am obviously a typical literary ingrate, biting the hand that feeds.

A living hero who landed on greatness by abandoning every typical literary feint, an emperor whose nakedness surpasses royal finery.

A typical reporter and an even more typical literary scholar, Mr. Plummer comes to the diaries expecting instant emotional disclosure.

HERE was a time when the typical literary novel in France was so abstract and spare, so anchored in the author's interior life that it was often impossible to tell what the book was about, let alone discover anything so vulgar as a story.

Many typical literary forms of the modern world including the novel, biography, history, travel writing, and journalism gained confidence during the Restoration period, when new scientific discoveries and philosophical concepts as well as new social and economic conditions came into play.

They abound in verbal conceits, ambivalence, assonance, alliteration, palindromes; they change abruptly from earnest to jest, from the crude to the most sublime, as the mid-20th-century scholar G.E. von Grunebaum pointed out in his evaluation of this form, which he regarded as the most typical literary reflection of the Islamic spirit.

Certain literary critics countered wittily that the "golden age" of science fiction is the chronological age of 14 the reputed age at which many fans become hooked on science fiction and the all-too-typical literary level of a genre relished far more for its new scientific "ideas" than its literary merits.

This is supposed to be secret, which is kept with that discretion typical of literary people.

Aśoka's eastern dialect, from the Magadha country, shows an s sound for Old Indo-Aryan ś, ṣ, s rather than the ś sound typical of literary Māgadhī.

With an initial print run of about 8,000 copies, it will be an order of magnitude larger than a typical debut literary magazine, which would be lucky to crack four digits a year.

The George Orwell cult among the young was followed by a bitter reaction against Orwell's own alleged reactionary tendencies, and such a violent cycle of adoration and detestation is typical of literary cults.