Authorial in a sentence

But this was authorial sleight of hand—a decision, by Neihardt, to close the curtain on a mournful, elegiac note.

So, uh, maybe Nolan has a point about film critics after all — especially when he concluded his speech by saying: In today’s world, as filmmakers you can’t hide behind authorial intent.

The moment the reader begins to believe that a character is protected by the magical cloak of authorial immunity, tension goes out the window.

But Jonny Owen's film does not suffer from the lack of McIlvanney's gruff authorial voice.

While the visual style of the film is in line with Dahl’s authorial vision, their quality is not up to the technological standards of 2020.

At this point, as her story enters the present day, Regan’s authorial voice changes.

But the most important lesson from the whole experience was another of the judges, Sophie Hannah, taking me to one side and telling me although I had a great authorial voice the book needed a great deal of work.

It carries exactly the sort of authorial identity we should want all these movies to have.

Still, Tolentino, who once edited this kind of writing for The Hairpin and Jezebel, found herself occasionally nostalgic for the authorial voices that developed during the personal essay’s heyday.

Well, you don’t have to deal with authorial vanity!

All this carousing cuts deeply into Jay’s writing time, but the real problem here is a total lack of irony and authorial detachment.

Always a contradictory figure, Burroughs nevertheless criticized Anatole Broyard for reading authorial intent into his works where there is none, which sets him at odds both with New Criticism and the old school as represented by Mathew Arnold.

Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators.

His authorial revulsion from tactile contact with other people has been noted by Julia Briggs in Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (1977).

It remains unclear if these figures represent real individuals, or if the authorial "I" who addresses them represents Shakespeare himself, though Wordsworth believed that with the sonnets "Shakespeare unlocked his heart".

M. Skinner, Authorial Arrangement of the Collection, pp. 46–48, in: A Companion to Catullus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.

Note: Musicologists do not agree on the terms used to refer to the two authorial versions of Boris Godunov.

Other themes include the subjectivity of meaning (associated with post-structuralism ), the relationship between fiction and life, what makes an ideal reader and author, and authorial originality.

That authorial observation is a thematic link to the double life recounted in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson, a novella admired by Oscar Wilde.

The differences in approach between the two authorial versions are sufficient as to constitute two distinct ideological conceptions, not two variations of a single plan.