(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.
Stylistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to style in language.
Example Sentences:
(1) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
(2) "As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor," wrote Jake Kerridge in the Daily Telegraph .
(3) That suggests that, stylistically, the best opponents for Madrid are … Barcelona.
(4) Think co-ordinator Dr Carlos Gigoux said: “Think seminars really make a university what it should be - a place where you think creatively and critically and engage with society from a human and professional experience.” Runner up: Teesside University The Student’s Academic Literacy Tool (Salt) is a writing tool that helps students learn about the key stylistic features required for a high standard of academic writing.
(5) Through press releases, videos and Clinton’s own words, Democrats quickly drew a portrait in which the differences between Trump and the rest of the Republican field were merely stylistic.
(6) Those typical stylistic and rhetorical structures which lead to the impression of schizophasia are isolated.
(7) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
(8) "Pictures are sent from our team to stylists in LA the week before the show as the catwalk collection is being finalised.
(9) But it's not just the celebrity stylist these clothes have to appeal to – no, no, no!
(10) The other costumes on the top rail are a pink cowgirl outfit, a pink waitress costume, a pink and purple superhero costume and a "hair stylist" tabard, in pink with purple trim, complete with plastic comb, mirror, scissors and hairdryer.
(11) Talkback Thames, the production company behind X Factor, said it was unaware of interns assisting the show's stylist, Laury Smith, and added that "her interns are not X Factor interns".
(12) Bad scientific writing involves more than stylistic inelegance: it is often the outward and visible form of an inward confusion of thought.
(13) Mills's background might be described as down to earth - he was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, the son of a mathematics teacher, grew up in Norfolk, and worked briefly as a clerk before breaking into the theatre in 1929 in the chorus of a revue - and a quality of everyday realism seemed to cling to his best performances, without detracting from his stylistic range.
(14) But it's pre-stylist, pre-decorator and pre that urge to frame up a room for the camera.
(15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(16) The reason for this shall be discussed another time but this tendency towards conservatism in American fashion goes quadruply so among American commentators on red-carpet fashion and, knowing this, the stylists and the designers obligingly dress their clients as conservatively (boringly) as possible.
(17) So the central character, Katniss, is both a warrior and a reality TV star with her own personal stylist.
(18) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(19) The people who deserve the biggest credit on this remake are the stylists.
(20) A 2010 survey by Stylist magazine found that more than 96% of women feel guilty at least once a day, while for almost half, the feeling arose up to four times a day.