(1) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(2) The view of most people I've talked to is that he's improved the paper and there is a grudging respect for what he's done among what I would call the literati of US journalism."
(3) Opened by cousins Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns in a row of brownstones on 1 January 1930, 21 has continued to draw the literati and glitterati to 52nd Street – nicknamed “Swing Street” – home to more than 30 speakeasies.
(4) Chris "Zipalong" Mullin invoked that illusory enemy, the "London literati" (I live in Belfast, so can disagree with him without fear of recrimination).
(5) This writer, not long from a very provincial colony, lost any residual awe for the metropolitan literati at a stroke.
(6) In this late life-time, he corresponded with scientists, literati, musicians, his son, and his grand-duke CARL AUGUST.
(7) Christensen said in a statement: “Styling themselves as ‘prominent Australians’, these elitist wankers include investment bankers, CEOs of major corporations such as Telstra, pretentious literati, professional activists and has-been celebrities.
(8) Today, this would be a telltale sign that a smidgen of marriage counselling might be in order, but in those dark, pre-therapy days such aid was not available to the literati.
(9) Here, a politician would get an aide to compile a list of books they were supposed to have read on holiday (cools ones to impress the literati, best-sellers to impress the rest) and then release it to the papers.
(10) He was partial to one of Ireland’s most iconic properties when in town, as were many of the visiting literati throughout the years, including William Makepeace Thackeray.
(11) Rimington, ably supported by Mullin, has effortlessly enraged the "London literati", inspiring headlines such as "Booker in crisis".
(12) They lived in the world of ideas, where Clifford's insubstantial writing had brought him a certain celebrity among the well-to-do London literati.
(13) His real market is in India where, still scorned by the literati, he is known to virtually every college student.
(14) The trouble is we should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ...
(15) Indeed, this was less a book launch with wine-sipping literati than a raucous anti-Zuma rally attended by top dissidents Tokyo Sexwale, Mathews Phosa and rebels from the ANC youth league.
(16) This new middle-class audience – small entrepreneurs, managers, travel agents, salespeople, secretaries, clerks – has an appetite for literary entertainment that falls between the elite idiom of the cultivated literati, who might be familiar with the novels of Amitav Ghosh or Salman Rushdie, and the Indian English of the street and the supermarket.
(17) The Golden Notebook "We should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ...
(18) Once more following the Sophien-Ausgabe of Weimar, Author gives an extract from GOETHE's Letters to literati, scientists, and princes of his time, concerning notices on his employment about sciences without botany.
Literature
Definition:
(n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
(n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
(n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
(n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only 81 cases are reported in the international literature.
(2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(3) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(4) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
(5) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(6) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
(7) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(8) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
(9) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(10) Based upon our clinical experience and this review of the literature, a suggested management protocol is presented.
(11) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(12) In agreement with the data in the literature, melanocytes incubated with IFN-gamma acquire HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens.
(13) The literature is reviewed to define the role of the different treatment modalities.
(14) Therefore, we performed meta-analysis of literature reports in Japan (n = 3), the USA (n = 4), and Europe (n = 20) on the risk of postgastrectomy cancer.
(15) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(16) A review of the literature reveals no similar case.
(17) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(18) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(19) On the basis of reports in the literature and of our own clinical experience it appears that melanocyte inhibiting factor (MIF) is a very promising therapeutic agent in the management of Parkinson's disease.
(20) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.