Sentences with phrase «one's literary heroes»

Which classic literary hero or heroine would you like to see in a contemporary novel?

Jimmy is the sort of literary hero you want to follow from book to book.

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Prior to the modern age most literary heroes exemplified the martial virtues of the warrior (courage, honor, duty) or the theological virtues of the saints (kindness, generosity, faithfulness).

Hanks will reprise his role as the be-mulleted academic / literary hero for the third time on the big screen.

I don't know where McAvoy will fit in to the canon of great literary heroes.

Something that surprised and intrigued me was Hitchens» affection for two of my own literary heroes, Bob Dylan and Evelyn Waugh.

Katniss Everdeen isn't meant to symbolise Jesus, yet her character arc — like that of so many literary heroes — echoes Christ's story in so many ways.

Peter Debruge of Variety calls the film, «a talky and mostly turgid attempt by British director David Yates to build on the epic vision he brought to the final four Harry Potter movies via another beloved literary hero.»

Armed with sizzling dialogue, it is an intense portrayal of one of Britain's most iconic literary heroes.

So has the wait been worth it and is Cruise able to pull - off the role that fans of Child's literary hero initially became critical of his casting?

But on the screen, it's more a companion to 2009's Sherlock Holmes — a similarly over-the-top, visually busy adventure thriller about a Victorian literary hero plagued by a criminal mastermind.

Inspired by the namesake literary hero, let yourself fall in love at Cyrano.

Keats House, meanwhile — which takes its names from the English Romantic poet who formerly lived there — will present an exhibition that ties together the writing of these two great literary heroes.

Is our literary hero a «true» hero, or does he just talk the talk?

In Sahara, Matthew McConaughey is the literary hero Dirk Pitt, searching for a U.S. Civil War ship loaded with gold and entombed in Africa.

Through a series of inexplicable events he winds up back in the Jazz age of Paris with all his literary heroes including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

«Bram and Alice,» debuting 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, stars Alfred Molina as a crusty novelist who's lost touch with his muse and Traylor Howard as a fan who discovers her literary hero is also her dad.

If you think Indy 4 took its time getting into theatres, just try to be an enthusiast of Burroughs» «other» (read: not Tarzan) literary hero.

TThe epigraph that Greta Gerwig chose to open her solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, a semiautobiographical coming - of - age film set in her native Sacramento circa 2002, is a quote from her literary hero Joan Didion: «Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.»

He hopes to find inspiration on a trip with Inez and her suspicious aristocratic parents to Paris, the city that inspired his literary heroes.

At a luncheon held in the film's honor yesterday at the Lotos Club, a literary club on the Upper East Side, director Condon and stars Sir Ian McKellen and Laura Linney participated in a half - hour chat with The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg about deconstructing the literary hero and telling a Sherlock Holmes story that had not been told.

Gil slowly realizes that he's somehow been transported back to the Paris of the 1920s and that he has the rare opportunity to talk to his literary heroes about his book.

Directed by Bill Condon, and starring the formidable Sir Ian McKellen, the fresh spin on the familiar character sees the eponymous detective, perhaps one of the least introspective of all literary heroes, challenged to look back on his life in his old age and face mortality.

David Yates» adaptation of the literary hero's story shines in a few areas.

Long before I even thought about writing stories for publication, I gobbled up biographies of my literary heroes and discovered many lived lives much like everyone else's.

Everyone started from zero, even your literary heroes.

With guidance from her literary hero — amateur sleuth Annabelle Adams — Moxie is determined to solve the critical question of who took school mascot Eddie the owl out of his display case, and in time for the awards ceremony at day's end.

But generally my literary heroes are those who understood intelligent fiction can also be entertaining and gripping.

It got me thinking about who my literary hero would be.

Meet your literary heroes and get creative.

That's why BookBaby has put together «Twitter for Authors in 10 Minutes a Day,» a free guide that will help you use Twitter to connect with readers, book reviewers, fellow writers, and your literary heroes all over the world — without spending your entire life online.

My literary heroes in the genre have and always will be, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov

Well, that's very flattering, as is being compared to guys like Elmore Leonard and Dennis Lehane, both of whom are literary heroes of mine.

Her knack for drawing unprepossessing portraits extends even to two of her literary heroes - Henry James and Joseph Conrad - whose secretaries put their negligible heads together to become the pathetically unheroic heroines of the title story.

Among my literary heroes are Arthur Conan Doyle, Daniel Silva, and Neal Stephenson.

Electronic paper, the technology behind your Kindle's incredible glare - free screen, is amazing at bringing to life the adventures of your literary hero, but it is also capable of much more, much like regular paper.

When Paris - born Henrot moved to New York, temporarily leaving many of her personal belongings behind, she discovered a surrogate for her literary heroes and favorite books in Japanese ikebana flower arrangements.

Since the last Tory government, his fictionalised essay - documentaries have mixed shots of inner - city decrepitude and drab hinterlands with wry narration on economic failures, forgotten history, literary heroes and the peculiar English mind trap of nostalgia.

In contrast, the Tarzan yell is widely understood and recognised as such, and is known to be associated with Burroughs's literary hero.

Harry Potter remained the literary hero this year, with more than 40,000 searches in the lead up to World Book Day.