Literati in a sentence

Anne is a member of the Literati Guide to Inverclyde, a group of volunteers who work tirelessly to keep our area clean and litter free.

He also appears on the culture television show, Africana Literati.

I could see Zambia’s literati—the cognoscente, intelligentsia, academics, highbrows, and scholars in the places he had mentioned guzzling and talking irrelevancies.

I will focus here on some of my favorite pieces, and hope that sports writer literati will continue to contribute and expand that bibliography.

Born to a lower-ranking samurai official of Kyoto’s silver mint, Taiga became part of the second generation of Japan’s artists, a term referring to the so-called southern school of painting derived that was from earlier Chinese literati practices.

The tortured literati of Trinity Bellwoods rendezvous nightly at this small, bordello-inspired den at the foot of Ossington.

Yosa Buson was also instrumental to Goshun in his development of literati painting and haiku poetry.

Any political discussion was full of references to this background, and one could not be one of the literati (or, in some periods, even a military officer) without having memorized them.

Civil service A government system supported by a large class of Confucian literati selected through civil service examinations was perfected under Tang rule.

Despite the loss of status, the family had a reputation among the literati through Murasaki's paternal great-grandfather and grandfather, both of whom were well-known poets.

Furthermore, the Georgian literati, reacting to Russian rule in Georgia and the suppression of national institutions, contrasted Tamar's era to their contemporary situation, lamenting the irretrievably lost past in their writings.

In the case of travel writings, the Qing literati use of "raw" and "cooked" are closer in meaning to "unfamiliar" and "familiar", on the basis of culture/language and interaction with Han settlers.

Members of this school were themselves educated literati who had come to question their very status and the purpose of art and had anticipated the impending modernization of Chinese society.

Qing literati used the term "raw/wild" (Zh) to define those people who had not submitted to Qing rule, and "cooked; tamed or subjugated" (Zh) for those who had pledged their allegiance through their payment of a head tax.

The departure from mainstream literature also meant that patronage of this genre was limited to the masses and not to the literati, which led to the stifling of the development of the wuxia genre.

There has been much confusion about Taiwan's association with the rumored "Island of Dogs," "Island of Women," etc., which were thought, by Han literati, to lie beyond the seas.

Yet, contextually, it was a lighthearted humorous work amongst close friends and literati—Zhao Mingyu, Zhou Zongdao, Yao Cundao, and Shen Zhou—about growing beards.