literateness

She was infuriated with the musty, cobwebbed, overly cautious literateness given these -her-poetic novelist-historians of the ages.

The queen is assisted in her villainy by a Moorish eunuch called, with brutal literateness, Castrato.

Favoring literateness over melodrama, and psychological kinks over special effects, "Usher" delivers unexpected jabs of wry humor.

Echoes of Morrison's rugged literateness and his gruff, feverish emotive vocals can be heard in latter day icons ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Elvis Costello".

But Mr. Louis also seems to have come into a time of renewed vitality and imagination, which, coupled with his refreshing literateness, made for an exhilarating evening when Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance opened on Tuesday night in a two-week season at the Joyce Theater.

(Dargis) 'USHER' (No rating, playing with three shorts with a total running time of 95 minutes) A 40-minute version of Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher," which favors literateness over melodrama and psychological kinks over special effects.