Example sentences for: literary

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

  • Because the manuscript was nowhere near to being a coherent, finished work and because Ellison left no instructions, his literary executor John F. Callahan had to choose between disappointing the amateurs and infuriating the professionals.

  • Book of Literary Lists

  • In a book called In Theory --a wholesale slaughter of the sacred cows of the postmodern Western intelligentsia--the Indian Marxist literary critic Aijaz Ahmad raised further questions about Said's mastery of his sources and accused him of self-aggrandizement and insufficient political discipline.

  • -- Tim Carvell (similarly literary, Dan Simon )

  • No, Mailer thought, the next time he ran into Faulkner at a swanky literary party, he would return Faulkner's insult with his usual witty insouciance.


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