Sentence examples for unwritten war from inspiring English sources

None of the major canonical American authors were centrally engaged in the Civil War's military action, leading the critic Daniel Aaron to refer to it in 1973 as "The Unwritten War".

The literary historian Daniel Aaron once wrote a book ("The Unwritten War") saying that the Civil War had produced very little literature of importance, but the literature of the period, surely, was spoken.

Indeed, Daniel Aaron entitled his influential study of American writers during these years "The Unwritten War," and Edmund Wilson opened his "Patriotic Gore" with the comment that "The period of the American Civil War was not one in which belles-lettres flourished".

The first was implicit in the unwritten cold war rule against killing intelligence officers or political leaders: two can play that game, and once started it is hard to control, as Americans learned in the Lockerbie bombing.

An unwritten rule of war states that no soldier shall be left behind.

The white men did it without fear of violence or legal consequence, because they intuited the drug war's unwritten rules that if they got caught, they could simply flip on the Mexicans and ride off into the sunset none the poorer.

In a war situation, the unwritten law is that cameramen are neutral and "off limits" to soldiers.

It was an unwritten rule of the Cold War that the two superpowers would not, publicly, have a military face-off.

The paradox is not only that "War and Peace" can seem unwritten, even though the accumulated drafts amount to five thousand pages.

A: I think that from the mid-19th century to post–World War II, there was an unwritten compact in higher education that the federal government would provide the land and fund the research and that the states would build the buildings and pay for the academic experience for the students.

The fighting ended when an unwritten understanding was agreed to by the warring parties.