What's the difference between garreteer and literary?

Garreteer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
  • (2) Garret FitzGerald, the Irish taoiseach, or prime minister, knew he had an uphill task in persuading Thatcher of the need for an agreement.
  • (3) The 2001-02 season would be the one you're looking for, Garret, when the trio of Bolton, Fulham and Blackburn steered clear of the drop.
  • (4) DON'T YOU OPEN THAT TRAP DOOR "It's looking like there's every chance that Derby, Birmingham and Sunderland will be getting relegated after one season," notes Garret Thornton.
  • (5) The focus of infestation were house rats (Rattus rattus) living in the garret.
  • (6) Using part of this sequence as a hybridisation probe we have cloned and sequenced a structural gene encoding human polypeptide highly homologous with two mammalian proteins, bWRS [Garret et al., Biochemistry 30 (1991) 7809-7817; EMBL accession No.
  • (7) But the Seanad has given Ireland some of its most high-profile political figures, including Mary Robinson , Garret FitzGerald and Conor Cruise O'Brien .
  • (8) His fortunes dipped and he spent the last years of his life living in a garret in central London.
  • (9) USA 87, 3508-3512] and bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase [M. Garret, V. Trezeguet, B. Pajot, J. C. Gandar, M. Merle, M. Guegiev, J. P. Benedetto, C. Sarger, J. Alteriot, J.
  • (10) A structural gene encoding bovine (b) tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (WRS) has recently been cloned and sequenced [Garret et al., Biochemistry 30 (1991) 7809-7817].
  • (11) And those soliciting money aren’t just bohemians starving in garrets – many of them are well-known names.
  • (12) A possible risk for the health of man can not be excluded if rooms are located directly in contact with dovecotes or garrets colonized with wild doves.
  • (13) The theme of the starving writer finding authenticity in the forced asceticism of the garret is a sub-theme in this series.
  • (14) Personally I would take draining my brothers' resources or starving in a garret if familial bonds of duty and obligation failed (and yes, John Dashwood, I'm looking at you, you sod) or were abruptly severed by their untimely deaths and inadequate will provisions, over marriage to Mr Collins.
  • (15) If I was ill, I used to be isolated in the bedroom garret.
  • (16) "I think the virtue of starving in a garret is romantic nonsense, and am convinced I'd be a better writer if a generous benefactor regularly wrote me large cheques. "
  • (17) Control measures against Ornithonyssus bacoti, which were successful within a short time, included eradication of the rats, closing of the hole in the ceiling, acaricide application in the garret and intensive cleaning of the living-room, the baby's nursery table, pram and bassinet.
  • (18) I didn’t have any sex, I didn’t do any drugs, I didn’t go to any parties.” Was he attempting to live out the idea of the reclusive artist, starving in his garret?
  • (19) Garret FitzGerald, the man credited with liberalising Ireland and helping start the peace process, has died aged 85.

Literary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
  • (a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
  • (2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
  • (3) The cytologic findings can be considered to be satisfactory in regard to literary data.
  • (4) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
  • (5) It became his task to use his literary art in an opposite way to Hesse, even though he despaired of what literature might achieve or of the capacity of rich Europeans to change.
  • (6) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
  • (7) Literary agent Andrew Kidd said: "I have nothing against readability but some books are more challenging.
  • (8) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
  • (9) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
  • (10) She sent the finished manuscript to Elaine Greene , a London literary agent.
  • (11) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
  • (12) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
  • (13) Like many ambitious young writers, he sought both popular success and literary acclaim.
  • (14) His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths.
  • (15) But also, in the sense that they crossed over the line of the acceptable literary and visual culture and brought the Mexican modern movement into being.
  • (16) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
  • (17) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
  • (18) You may not know it, but literary ghosts are everywhere.
  • (19) The literary data on the reexamination of the holotype are given.
  • (20) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.

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