literary - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • criticism: He is the author of two books of literary criticism.
  • critic: He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, under the Marxist literary critic Raymond Williams.
  • genre: I would go further, however, history is a literary genre.
  • executor: His literary executors seem to have behaved extraordinarily badly - or perhaps just stupidly.
  • canon: Only with the shrinkage of the literary canon in the Roman period would Apollodorus' enterprise have begun to be conceivable.
  • text: Lists collections of Germany literary texts, with an author index.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: Let purely literary questions about the Bible receive full and fair discussion.
  • merely: The question before these writers was not " merely literary, nor historical, " but a restatement of religious principles: " .
  • mostly: Our intervention in Respect so far has been mostly literary: it needs to become more rounded.
  • highly: His reputation was made by his early novel, The Shadows, an allusive and highly literary evocation of the Holocaust.
  • very: The subject is very literary given its subject matter is visual.
  • only: A: Plutarch's Life of Marius is the only literary evidence.

Used with adjective complement

  • publish: This new exception applies to commercially published literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and published editions ( but not databases ).
  • protect: In the past, copyright has been used to protect literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works in print or written form.
  • use: In this unit we use literary extracts to challenge philosophy and highlight what we really admire in a good person.

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