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 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
The find joins more than 6,000 roman coins the British Museum has recorded as being found in Buckinghamshire.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
But Hollywood’s biggest zeitgeist in years was propelled by a pair of movies without a roman numeral, a Jedi or a superhero in sight.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
He wore a regal blue robe decorated with roman numerals.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
In bookstores there was a boomlet in rakishly intelligent literary romans à clef.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
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
Love was certainly a passion; and even more certainly it was, as seen in poets like Dante and Petrarch,—in romans like "Lancelot" and "Aucassin,"—in ideals like the Virgin,—complicated beyond modern conception.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry
