Sentences with phrase «made literary sense»

Megiddo made literary sense; as a metaphor, it gelled.

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The Bible covers so many different literary genres though and is written for and by so many different people at different times, that it simply doesn't make sense to talk of the whole thing as an «instruction manual».

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

I knew, of course, that it made sense to teach the two writers together, but I hadn't then thought very much about influences, comparisons and contrasts, affinities, rankings in the literary hierarchy and so on.

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.

Rather than quote Bible verses (which would have been a foreign book that made little sense to those present), he quoted from their literary works.

The topics don't need to be newsworthy or high literary — hell, they don't even have to make sense — they just need to be a departure from mama life.

In this sense, Damasio's career mirrors the evolution of the brain sciences, which no longer focus exclusively on the microscopic tanglings of neurons and have made steady inroads into a number of fields like economics, sociology, literary theory, and political science.

The more a student has committed major historical and literary touchstones to long - term memory, the easier it is to make sense of new information and process new connections.

It only made sense to have an office in the heart of the publishing world, so agents and other literary types could drop in for meetings.

I really don't care if my works are distributed either way on any other online publishing network, as far as I'm concern it all boils down to content and essence of wordplay in a literary sense of the book we make.

The Visible Worldis a literary page - turner and an immensely moving novel about the vagaries of love and our need to make sense of life through the telling of stories.

The freedom to evolve a book «brand,» interact with readers directly, and control every aspect of the creative process — while still endowing that brand with a sense that it was a huge, group effort, with lots of (monetary) support from its editors, PR - people, and other mysterious higher - ups who make the literary world go round?

So when I hear people say Amazon is «destroying» literary careers, it just doesn't make sense — it actually seems to be making them.

It makes a sort of sense — one of Berne's previous novels, A Crime in the Neighborhood, is a previous winner of the Orange Prize, one of the most prestigious UK literary awards, now called the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

I also knew very little of Zelda (I honestly had her conflated in my head with the Ziegfield Follies, which makes no sense) and was thrilled to see it was connected to the literary hot - shots of America in the early part of this century.

It would make sense for Amazon to approach literary agents and authors directly.

This perspective explores the pros and cons of applying DRM to literary works and suggests an approach that makes sense for authors weighing the various options.

Certainly, a writer's style is not only comprised of their literary voice and choice of words; it is the sentence structure and pacing that also moves the story, so it makes sense to examine these patterns alone.

In her catalogue essay, Poddar provided partial explanation for suggestive pictorial elements in Gaitonde's abstractions by citing a specialist in South Asian art, critic Richard Bartholomew, who maintained that traditional Indian miniatures were not purely figurative, but were composed of literary and abstract elements.4 Gaitonde then might have been alluding to our necessity to «see» something in the picture, even when there is nothing objective or graphic there because, intuitively, we attempt to make sense out of unfamiliar patterns trying to connect them with what we already know.