Sentences with phrase «literary men»

Birzer's placement of Kirk in the company of literary men (and women, including Flannery O'Connor) helps explain why his influence waned in the»70s and»80s.

It's too easy to display people today as being empty or insignificant or having nothing left to lose, and it's natural for literary men and women to be critical of times without obvious exemplars....

These superior literary men formed a kind of snobbish club.

Still, that book had done so little justice to the characters I had loved — or held in extreme dislike (Ashley Wilkes is second only to the Reverend Dimmesdale on my wimpy literary men hate list)-- on the screen that I never did pick up Gone With the Wind, thinking it would prove another turgid potboiler.

Hired by the ever - attentive Barney to write a thousand - word essay for Joan's announcement, Ernst's pal, literary man Nicolas Calas, saw the work's grounding in the material world as a relief after other avant - garde painters» suffocating insistence upon expressing their feelings.

Mughal rulers such as Babar and Jahangir were themselves literary men of high distinction, and their courtiers included men of great learning and collectors of large libraries.

He is one of a chorus of critics whose expertise ranges across the academic disciplines - philosophers, geologists, drama critics, literary men and women, students of law and of history, theologians, and so on.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

We may fault Goethe now for having shared Keats's objection to Newton's theories about light, but his own faith, as Faust makes clear, was the prescientific faith of a literary man who never doubted that his sense of reality would stand up against skeptical empiricists.

In 1515, just when Luther himself would be starting his really serious criticism of the current syllabus, Mutianus was also voicing criticism, but from the superior position of a literary man, rather than a theologian.

Both are literary men, aware of the rhythms of writer Ellroy.