roman
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The sparks, he said, resembed a "giant roman candle" and went from the plane's nose to its tail.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
There is no more quotable novel about Hollywood than Carrie Fisher’s roman à clef, “Postcards From the Edge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
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
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
Then she pulled on a smile like a roman shade rolling up, motioned at me, and then mouthed the words “You’re on.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
Could the romans surpass the greeks, had the romans not learned from the egyptians and greeks?
From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph
