roman
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They call their anonymous frontperson “Vessel” and backing band by roman numerals.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
The sparks, he said, resembed a "giant roman candle" and went from the plane's nose to its tail.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
“Did elon musk just hit the roman salute at his inauguration speech?”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
The seamless overlap between real life and fictional counterparts, and the faithful reproduction of such well-established facts, conveys the author’s intention to offer a crystal clear clé to this roman à clef.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Will held the watch in his hand and looked down at the white face, the black roman numerals, and the skinny second hand ticking forward in a steady, jerking beat.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
This record further emphasizes her leap away from autobiography into songs that are either pure fictions or else lyrically symbolic in ways that don’t act as romans à clef.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020
“I’m sad that this is what America demands as entertainment. We’re the romans, cheering for the lions. ‘Are you not entertained?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
She added that “The Love Machine” was “not exactly a literary work. But in its own little sub-category of popularly written romans à clef, it shines, like a rhinestone in a trash can.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2019
That “lunacy” is evidenced, for example, by Hester’s efforts to make romantic romans à clef out of Murdoch’s books.
From The New Yorker ● May 10, 2016
The style and subject of these romans d’aventures are naturally extremely various.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
