"literary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In this latter, he seems the literary descendant of Shakespeare's Friar Laurence who made great (though ultimately futile) efforts to help Romeo and Juliet.
- In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the literary descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances.
- If Orton is clearly Wilde's most direct literary descendant, he can also trace his theatrical roots all the way back to Sheridan and Moliere.
- One scales the plays' heights much as one sinks into the overstuffed Victorian novels that are among their literary descendants.
- As explained in these essays, Winters considered the moderns the literary descendants of Romanticism.
- My all-time favorite similes, by the way, come from the hardboiled-detective fiction of the forties and fifties, and the literary descendants of the dime-dreadful writers.
- Gnolls are the literary descendants of Lord Dunsany's "gnoles", who were clever, evil and nonhuman.
- A literary descendant of William Carlos Williams, Dr. Straus often writes about communication between doctors and patients.
- I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying.
- Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's Rocambole.
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