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literary
1. I never read anything remotely uplifting or literary, but I did
2. question were not of a literary bent, far from it, in fact, and paid the
3. ‘Oh stop showing off your bloody literary degree, James!’ Grant said, ‘Anyway, it wasn’t anything we did
4. He wrote literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies
5. that of the literary critics? Simple! Because the skier
6. readers are the literary critics
7. Publishers and Literary Agents, 2000): “In my experience, the most
8. To dream of reading fables represent your literary mind and romantic notions
9. If, in those little schools, the books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more instructive than they commonly are; and if, instead of a little smattering in Latin, which the children of the common people are sometimes taught there, and which can scarce ever be of any use to them, they were instructed in the elementary parts of geometry and mechanics ; the literary education of this rank of people would, perhaps, be as complete as can be
10. As critic, he snoozed in boredom over any tired literary devices
11. It has had its day, but that day had not yet come in 1951 when Lionel Trilling, a prominent liberal literary critic, wrote that there were no serious intellectual ideas to be found in modern American conservatism
12. remained there, spent his time in literary pursuits, and became
13. His political ambitions softened by age, Nixon‘s geopolitical literary output subsequently earned him international acclaim and the grudging respect from his political enemies, many of whom he oftentimes consulted with on Foreign Affairs in his later years
14. He resembled Taras Bulba, the literary hero of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol’s novel
15. A pop philosopher who had no effect on the philosophy field, and an awful novelist who had no admirers in literary circles, Rand's appeal was to very sheltered well off individuals with a fantasy image of themselves as persecuted
16. Ian O‘Connor, champion of the oppressed and self-styled Stephen Vincent Benet of the Gannett sports pages, might have properly considered a career more in line with the principles of serious journalism rather than (seemingly) wasting his ―enormous‖ literary talents and high-minded idealism as a sports columnist
17. No matter how much I appreciate and value that literary prize, it does not compare with the honor that it represents and the gratitude that stirs up in me the homage that Ponferrada rendered me, at the request of the governing Council of Fuentesnuevas, for naming a street after me in the neighborhood of that locality where I grew up and was reared in my youth
18. discourses, literary composition, the chaturmaas sites and so on
19. itinerary, discourses, literary composition, the chaturmaas sites and so
20. As I said at the beginning, I could scarcely believe how the understandings fell into place one after another of all that I had read and wondered about, had read to me and heard discussed in my presence, of that great work, among innumerable other literary sources, over many years
21. That was why a literary witness had to be made
22. It appears that Genesis, its first book, largely came from older literary or oral history sources that appear to predate the Hebrew understanding by centuries, if not ages
23. A certain disquietude began to disturb my peace of mind as the realization began to dawn that a literary witness would be useless if there was no opportunity to share what had been so avidly compiled
24. (She has published poems and essays in various literary journals
25. Green is also the author of Stone Blood, a literary novel, and Three Pounds of Flax, a collection of 48 prose poems
26. It was in that relaxed atmosphere of joy and rejoicing that he initiated his interest in a new literary orientation, which takes some of his time writing poetry
27. Nevertheless, I also share the spiritual and moral values and the literary traditions of realism and illusion of my beloved country of birth, Spain
28. Roger translated this sonnet into English, preserving the main literary characteristics of the classical sonnet, including its rhyme
29. Before starting to write each day, he would read the literary analysis section of a morning and afternoon edition of two different papers to prepare him mentally for the work ahead, and intellectually for a more refined use of words
30. Here, as part of the group’s activity, Roger indulges his literary curiosity with a visit to Juliet’s house (for Romeo and Juliet supposedly lived in Verona), and Lucille satisfies her musical itch by going to the opera at the city’s majestic “Arena”, a centuries-old Roman amphitheater with a gigantic stage that lends itself to the massive numbers of persons and animals in the production of “Aida”, a frequent summer presentation
31. literally drowning in scientific and literary material, it is difficult to imagine a time when a book was a rare thing
32. Nor any literary reputation
33. Anne has been writing gay, lesbian, fantasy and literary fiction since Y2K
34. The author has become acquainted, over a period of years, with the postulations of certain others who claim, based presumably on lengthy study and research, that many books of the Old and New Testament were written using texts from earlier literary sources, no longer extant
35. This author makes the claim that not only were earlier literary sources relied upon when these writings took place, but also very probably oral history sources in the form of transgenerational recitations that were carried on as a tradition well into the beginnings of written history
36. As I have indicated, these literary sources have not survived and can only be implied by techniques applied to the study of the book itself
37. The claim is made that some of these lost literary sources may, at some time in the future, be discovered to be the oral sources, cited by this author, that have been mistaken as the nonexistent literary ones
38. ” This could have been a literary source from the beginning authored by those who had been practiced scribes during their Egyptian captivity
39. The challenge that came along with this adventure was to make a literary witness to the significance of this proposition in the transformation of his mind regarding all questions which had previously gone without a convincing answer
40. It was a tremendous challenge to envision myself into a time and place where I’d never been, nor seen except through the porthole of pictographic and literary consumerism
41. A special thank-you to Mum, for igniting my literary obsession long ago
42. This author makes the claim that not only were earlier literary sources relied upon when these
43. As I have indicated, these literary sources have not survived and can
44. make a literary witness to the significance of this proposition in the transformation of his mind
45. Some literary historians believe that Shakespeare might have had
46. Ivan Lake, the editor of thèBodleian', a contemporary at Cambridge, tells me that although the two men moved in different sets, they frequented the same literary circles
47. "It's probably literary blasphemy, but I couldn't take him
48. For some time he had been my entire readership and I needed his infectious kind of laughter which carried me over many typos and literary snafus
49. In between their literary novels, artworks or inventions, they had an awful lot of time on their hands
50. Good copy is simply communication, rather than literary
