Example sentences for: authorial

How can you use “authorial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The language is far more complex and difficult than that of Invisible Man . In place of a single narrator, there are at least three: The authorial voice; Hickman; and Sunraider, who speaks in a number of distinct tongues--as the child Bliss, in dreams, in remembered conversations, and in convoluted memories poured into a death-reverie stream of consciousness.

  • At least Morris isn't pretending, like most traditional biographers, that he is in command of some untainted objectivity beyond authorial presence or beyond fiction.

  • Participants were invited to submit actual examples of authorial self-praise as smug and fatuous as Warren Adler's: "My novels ...

  • Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."

  • Possibly because he returned from Little Rock without the goods, Brock takes a new authorial tack.


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