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Mr Mankell wrote unremunerative novels and plays before turning to a life of crime.
Though publishers of fiction recognize certain obligations to art, even when these are unprofitable (as they usually are), they are impelled for the most part to regard the novel as a commercial property and to be better pleased with large sales of indifferent work than with the mere unremunerative acclaim of the intelligentsia for books of rare merit.
Earlier emperors had sought to constrain groups of men to perform certain tasks that were deemed vital to the survival of the state but that proved unremunerative or repellent to those forced to assume the burden.
It became clear to him that he had dedicated his life to an unremunerative muse... Describes how Blackwell slowly moved toward selling counterfeit versions of ancient Clovis points... Tells how he was revealed... Whether out of conscience or in a panic about getting caught, Blackwell acted quickly.
No one can be sure that Paul Moore, Jr., would have found it just as easy to choose the independent and unremunerative career of a priest if his grandfather's money hadn't freed him from financial need.
(Astoundingly, that is, when one considers that he is proposing something illegal, dangerous, unremunerative , and terrifying).
In the decades that followed, Mr. Rust devoted his life to freelance music writing and discography, an unremunerative , solitary but, to him and his fellow travelers, deeply necessary enterprise.
"The purpose of the act was to 'safeguard authors against unremunerative transfers' and address 'the unequal bargaining position of authors, resulting in part from the impossibility of determining a work's value until it has been exploited,' " Judge Moskowitz wrote in his 10-page ruling.
Besides Heller, even a short list of people he edited reads like a celebrity roster, if such a thing can be said to exist for the relative unremunerative world of books: Toni Morrison, Mordecai Richler, Edna O'Brien, Ray Bradbury, Cynthia Ozick, Doris Lessing, John Le Carré, Michael Crichton, Robert Caro, Katharine Hepburn and Bill Clinton.
From this confusion he builds a portrait of gloom, seeing the plight of our churches through a cliched business model – a re-run of Dr Beeching's verdict with churches as unremunerative branch lines.
They are not "fake memoirs" in the manner of "A Million Little Pieces," or Binjamin Wilkomirski's faux Holocaust-survivor memoir "Fragments," or Margaret B. Jones's mock gang history "Love and Consequences" — all books that could have been printed as fiction if their authors had had the courage to wade into the uncertain and largely unremunerative waters of that end of the publishing industry.
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The word "unremunerative" functions as an adjective that modifies nouns related to activities, professions, or economic ventures. According to Ludwig, it is frequently used to provide a formal evaluation of the financial viability of a pursuit.
Expression frequency: Common
