roman
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“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
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
Her third book, “American Wife,” was a darkly shaded roman à clef about a woman very much like First Lady Laura Bush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
The words Tsimtsum and Panama were printed on each side of the bow in stark, black, roman capitals.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
"It's quite a little romans," said Sam thickly, as he was pushed outside the last house of call, and a bolt shot desolately behind him.
From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
