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单词 unliterary
例句 unliterary
The stories layered inside the recipes are a bonus, because Hamilton set out to make her cookbook a distinctly unliterary effort. ‘Prune’ cookbook: Gabrielle Hamilton speaks directly to her line cooks
Edith Wharton, brought up in a wealthy, unliterary "gilded age" family in the 1860s and 70s, was forbidden by her mother to read any novels until after she was married. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z
His atmospheres are solidly imagined, but the tone is breezy and colloquial and amazingly unliterary. Revisiting Roberto Bolaño — ‘the Visceral Realist’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z
What is it, exactly, about genre that is unliterary—and what is it in “the literary” that resists genre? A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z
The surviving printed text may not be the whole story, but that doesn't make it unliterary. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z
Actually, Polk rightly described herself as a “poor correspondent,” for her few remaining letters are thin and decidedly unliterary. The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z
Charles Isherwood Given our increasingly unliterary culture, it is hardly surprising that most Broadway musicals these days seem to be transcriptions of popular movies. The Week Ahead: Mar. 20 ? 26 2011-03-16T20:54:08Z
Guests contributed not only their money and time, but their talents, however unliterary. Fundraiser for wife of author Charles Bock 2011-02-07T05:42:08Z
Making like Marvel and building a universe is bold and exciting, but to some it might seem unliterary. David Mitchell's expanding universe swallows up the ’60s 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z
“I’m laughing all the time, making jokes, and, if you’ll excuse the unliterary phrase, messing around,” he told me. How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z
The prose became even sparer and, in the case of “Nemesis,” deliberately matter-of-fact and unliterary, and though the books have plenty of sexual moments, they are haunted by something darker and bleaker. Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z
Characteristically, Dickens set out to transform an unliterary genre, the ghost story – fodder of magazine fiction – into a moral satire, combining ghoulishness with comedy. Did Dickens invent Christmas? No, but he did reinvent the novel 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z
This might lead a reader to assume that Salter had never been something as unliterary as a fighter pilot. The Lives They Lived 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z
But also the dangers of assuming authors are luddites or developers are unliterary geeks. Why writing an app is different to writing a children's picture book 2012-07-30T14:11:22Z
Mrs. Alexander remarks that her "kinsfolk and acquaintance in early life, were, if not illiterate, certainly unliterary." Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z
In his valedictory the editor complains bitterly of the unliterary atmosphere in America. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z
Because Philadelphians did not begin to write the minute they landed on the banks of the Delaware, some wise people argue that Friends were then, as now, unliterary. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z
My unliterary environment has doubtless been best suited to me. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z
In the hands of the Italians the comedy of masks was absolutely unliterary, since it was not even written, and its performers were not only comedians, but acrobats also. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z
In essence, therefore, a play may be called unliterary, and thus it makes a wider, more democratic appeal than anything in print can. How to See a Play
Here the septenary is introduced in the May-day song of Ralph, the London apprentice, doubtless because of its popularity for such unliterary verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History
And it is not possible to widen the scope much, so as to take in some eminent students who have given not unliterary expression to the study of languages and subjects other than the classical. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
Johnson harbored them as unliterary, but Webster welcomed them as a part of the growing vocabulary of the people. Noah Webster American Men of Letters
The most unliterary pastor cannot but be a meditative man. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects
Thus the play can be all things to all men; at once unliterary in its appeal, and yet, in the finest examples, an important contribution to letters. How to See a Play
Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922
She does not seem to have been extremely wise, and was entirely unliterary; but neither of these defects is a causa redhibitionis in marriage; and she was certainly a faithful and affectionate wife. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series
The topic was frivolous and without precedent; moreover, it was unliterary—a heinous offense, difficult of condonation. Otherwise Phyllis
The arguments of the splitters-up are, naturally enough, seldom if ever literary, belonging as they do to the class of Biblical, that is to say, unliterary, criticism. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Yet not the faintest idea of story-writing crossed the clear sky of my unliterary imagination. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories
This dependence on genius and inspiration is one of the reasons why the world is so full of unliterary writers, and why so many of real talent fail of success. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
And Mr. Baker glowed with delight that he had been able, from the unliterary center of Centerville to send so many candles to shine in the chandelier of Chicago. Sunny Slopes
He has not a little of the shrewd common-sense and the homely and unliterary directness of Franklin. Inquiries and Opinions
But though he was much pleased by his reception, he thought Lord Salisbury “dangerous,” as being unliterary, and only scientific and religious in his tastes. Matthew Arnold
But on the whole I wouldn't seriously object to the adjective "unliterary." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
Mere facts are frequently most unliterary, though they may be susceptible of a high literary polish. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
And yet a more unliterary, not to say illiterate, man than he had been before the runaway, did not exist in the Albany. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
For myself, I can claim for them only an unusual degree of that unliterary and unpopular quality called truthfulness. Romance of California Life
What a delightful unliterary person Mrs Browning is to meet! Robert Browning
He has called himself "the most unliterary of writers." Old and New Masters
If we make our stories readable we must, in some degree, represent life; if we represent life we cannot wholly avoid commonplaces; if we do not avoid commonplaces we become unliterary. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
‘Perhaps it is an offer, but not of that sort,’ said Bessie, and she explained what the unliterary Admiral had not understood.  More Bywords
Her talk was very unliterary, and its effect seemed hardly conscious. The Rise of Silas Lapham
This, with his derivation from one of the unliterary Boston suburbs, and his unambitious residence in a place like Hatboro', gave her a sense of provinciality in him. Annie Kilburn : a Novel
The letters of Catherine Benincasa, commonly known as St. Catherine of Siena, have become an Italian classic; yet perhaps the first thing in them to strike a reader is their unliterary character. Letters of Catherine Benincasa
Just at present he was engaged in noisily pulling a most unliterary pine table from a dark corner to a place near the window. Lifted Masks; stories
The unliterary basis is the best to start from; it is the virgin soil of the wilderness; but it is a good way to the college and the library, and much work must be done. Our Friend John Burroughs
Bartley could not deny himself this gibe; but he trusted to Lapham's unliterary habit of mind for his security in making it, and most other people would consider it sincere reporter's rhetoric. The Rise of Silas Lapham
The repartee was clever, the action absurd, and there were local hits in plenty for those unliterary persons who did not catch the essential parody. Betty Wales, Sophomore
I do not wish to overburden this essay with history, but one of the reasons for the appearance of such a dominating medium in a comparatively unliterary country is relevant to the discussion to follow. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
Because this is an eminently unliterary age, incapable of thought, and therefore seeking to be amused. The Broad Highway
These were mostly of the middle class, physicians, lawyers, and such men of letters as could subsist on the scant wants of an unliterary town. The Valley of Decision
Some ill-natured people thought her stupid, but in her younger days she had liked Trollope's novels in the Cornhill, disapproved placidly of "Jane Eyre," and admired Tennyson, so that she could not be considered unliterary. Jeremy
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