Her talk was very unliterary. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : literary history. ,literary style. ,a literary man. From Dictionary.com.
Even the friendliest critic would admit this style is unliterary. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Help Prescription: A Double Dose of Culture] Reference
Hey, I'm not saying all science fiction is unpopular and unliterary. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial vs Literary (again)] Reference
Very few documents survive either by or about Woolf's unliterary subjects. From Wordnik.com. [The Brooms of Bloomsbury] Reference
A literary category much more common in Europe than in America depends on its unliterary charm. From Wordnik.com. ['One Life, One Writing'] Reference
Mere facts are frequently most unliterary, though they may be susceptible of a high literary polish. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
And yet a more unliterary, not to say illiterate, man than he had been before the runaway, did not exist in the Albany. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
They all talked about books, favoring those “smart” books that appealed to a large readership without being unliterary. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
And again when the old stepmother at Bath takes up her pen and quavers out a few uncomposed and unliterary sentences we see him. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
I have read at least two book reviews which compared a novel to a computer game in the sense "it's as bad/unliterary as a computer game". From Wordnik.com. [Like yanno..Hamlet, but darker] Reference
The reason womag stories aren't studied anywhere is because they lack depth, to say the least. they're, to use an unliterary term, rubbish!. From Wordnik.com. [The true history of the short story] Reference
Wiedeman Barrett Browning was born, and from that time on her letters, quite like the letters of any unliterary mother, are full of the wonderful doings of this child. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
One side effect, says Evans, is that writers start pandering to Hollywood's admittedly unliterary standards, that they start trying to write the Great American Novelization. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent Of Man] Reference
The importance of comradeship under fire is common to most war memoirs but never more powerfully related than in Sledge's down-to-earth, almost consciously unliterary memoir. From Wordnik.com. [World War II Memoirs] Reference
Her talk was very unliterary, and its effect seemed hardly conscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference
Of all the literary men I have known he was the most unliterary in his make and manner. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
Fifty thousand dollars offered for his copyright seemed a generous sum to the unliterary. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
Guests contributed not only their money and time, but their talents, however unliterary. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Yet not the faintest idea of story-writing crossed the clear sky of my unliterary imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference
He has not a little of the shrewd common-sense and the homely and unliterary directness of Franklin. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
Newspapers have reached their present power by becoming unliterary, and reflecting all the interests of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Backlog Studies] Reference
For myself, I can claim for them only an unusual degree of that unliterary and unpopular quality called truthfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of California Life] Reference
Siena, have become an Italian classic; yet perhaps the first thing in them to strike a reader is their unliterary character. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Catherine Benincasa] Reference
Just at present he was engaged in noisily pulling a most unliterary pine table from a dark corner to a place near the window. From Wordnik.com. [Lifted Masks; stories] Reference
This, with his derivation from one of the unliterary Boston suburbs, and his unambitious residence in a place like Hatboro ', gave her. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference
Miller is a very unliterary writer. From Wordnik.com. [Vitro Nasu » 2006 » June] Reference
Trilling was a very unliterary literary critic. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Criticism] Reference
Even her unliterary acquaintances understood that. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
They are too difficult, too unliterary. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
"unliterary.". From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
"He was a completely unliterary figure. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The many -- the unliterary -- read for the events. From Wordnik.com. [An Experiment in Criticism] Reference
A.D. -- Ts'in's unliterary quality -- Her human sacrifices -- Her. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
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