Sentences with phrase «literary equivalent»

Highly recommended as a Born Again literary equivalent of the Million Man March imploring immature males to heed the scriptural message of 1 Corinthians 13:11: «When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.»

Too many business owners write professional bios that are the literary equivalent of sleeping pills.

He's been known for saying that his books are the literary equivalent to a Big Mac and fries.

The recrudescent nineteenth - century theology of Christian subjectivism finds its literary equivalent in the current Christian chic of salvation through autobiography alone.

What I need after birth is the literary equivalent of a long, tight hug, a whispered promise that this will pass, that you will be okay.

You've promised the publishers the Earth with the proposal — the literary equivalent of the party manifesto — and now you have to deliver.

It was the literary equivalent of a suicide belt.

«The signals introduced by Austen and Scott position them at the beginning of a stylistic - thematic genealogy; they are, in this sense, the literary equivalent of Homo erectus or, if you prefer, Adam and Eve,» Jockers wrote in a paper that was presented at the Digital Humanities conference in Hamburg, Germany, last month.

Barker's visual side dominates its literary equivalent this time out, resulting in a time - killer that may amuse fans until illusion is shattered by the rolling of the end credits.

into the literary equivalent of a Muppet - Babies escapade.

Still, the blowback about the book's title leveled the literary equivalent of the color line - crossing inquiry: Can white men sing the blues?

Bana and McAdams also come across as too lifeless and Bana makes his character too much of a metrosexual compared to its literary equivalent.

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

(Antonio Banderas) is the literary equivalent of a one - hit wonder.

Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler's debut novel, is the literary equivalent of spiked chocolate mousse: the lightest of...

With its large cast of eccentrics and their ever - shifting relationships, The Rocks feels a bit like the literary equivalent of a good Netflix binge: a guilty pleasure well - crafted enough that you don't actually have to feel guilty about it.

Perhaps the most moving parts of the book are when someone with whom the author is speaking does the literary equivalent of turning to the camera and saying, «there is nothing wrong with me.»

This nightmare is aided and abetted by Chairman Peter Booth Wiley and his entourage, who engage vulnerable employees in the literary equivalent of trench warfare.

It is the literary equivalent of Jackson Pollock.

No doubt, many indie books are vanity projects that are the literary equivalent of those singers that are rejected during the first episodes of each season's American Idol, but this fact shouldn't lead to the iron - fast conclusion that all indie books should be rejected merely for the fact that they ARE indie books.

Some people would have you believe that short stories are the literary equivalent of baseball's minor leagues, a place to hone your skills until you're ready for a bigger and more prestigious stage.

In fact, the term «case closed» is sort of the literary equivalent of saying «end of discussion.»

Second, Indyreads demonstrates the power of particular focus and support to literature in one's backyard, the literary equivalent of the locavore movement.

When I pointed out the errors and demanded an audit, the agency did the literary equivalent of flinging my books at me.

It's the literary equivalent of going to the 108th - floor observation deck of the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas, looking down at the city and across to Henderson and the other parts of the valley.

It says that authors are now pulling the literary equivalent of a double shift, putting out short stories or novellas or even an extra full - length book every year.

This will be the literary equivalent of a cage fight, no rules, no referee, no limitations on the amount of popcorn consumed.

Creative nonfiction is the literary equivalent of jazz: it's a rich mix of flavors, ideas, voices, and techniques — some newly invented, and others as old as writing itself.

For me, a 1 - star review goes to the literary equivalent of a widely - praised and popular restaurant that gave me food poisoning.

e-Books are books in a data file format that can be read by various widely available Free eBook Readers and most PDAs, purpose built eReaders, small mobile computers and even mobile phones (see Reading eBooks On iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch), making them the literary equivalent of mp3's!

The Passage is the literary equivalent of a unicorn: a bona fide thriller that is sharply written, deeply humane, ablaze with big ideas, and absolutely impossible to put down.»

This gives readers the literary equivalent of an episodic TV series and gets them excited about your next installment.

The outcome is, in the artist's words, the literary equivalent of a «gutting 11 hour supermovie».

They find the literary equivalent in Bret Easton Ellis» Less Than Zero when narrator Clay becomes deeply unsettled by a billboard proclaiming «Disappear Here.»

The title takes its cue from a poem by Gertrude Stein, who more than one hundred years ago was seeking a literary equivalent to cubism and attempted in her prose to «banish memory» to «articulate a continuous present where writing recreates itself anew in each successive moment.»