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/ɔːθˈɔːɹɪəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or by or typical of an author
authorial comments
auctorial flights of imagination
How To Use authorial In A Sentence
- Such literatures often reveal an authorial distaste for the social types involved.
- Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.
- Modern edited texts, he argues, posit a kind of authorial intention which did not exist for many of the writers whose plays are preserved in print, while facsimiles hypostatize one printed copy of a play as ‘the play.’
- The only way wherein authorial (privileged) intent can be kept is if the author is also the illustrator or artist, otherwise, there will always be a duel of visions. Archive 2004-12-01
- It does exhibit sedulous authorial research and reveling in recondite lore - some of it in various untranslated Afghan languages, though these passages are hardly more annoying than those in English.
- When reading engages coded alphabetic symbols and generates through them a poetic setting in the head, or a narrative scenario, the reader has not entered upon the imaginary via some magic auscultation, some occulted relation to a speaking authorial presence. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
- To develop his professional, authorial brand, he was 'at once entrepreneurial, combinatory, proprietary, sociable, and creative'. The Times Literary Supplement
- For example, Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow.
- On the other, the book makes no concession to ways in which authorial intent might be shaped or scuttled by external factors.
- An authorial demeanour indicative of lofty, uncompromising cerebration casts an oppressive shadow over all the essays. Times, Sunday Times