literati
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The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
The floating ships in the fantasy role-playing game Honkai: Star Rail are populated with traders, gourmets and literati who surf their texts on jade abacuses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
In the world of literature, for example, authors who are “othered” outside of the elite literati typically are boxed into othering themselves just to parlay their creativity into a career.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
Unlike, for example, the 1983 list, which now looks like a defining picture of the London literati, the judges believe the 2023 list is more representative of British society as a whole.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023
He supped at half-past nine with his favorite literati, and at twelve the king went to bed.—Communication from David Vedder, in the Glasgow Citizen.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus.
From Time Magazine Archive
British critics have just discovered "a major dramatist" who turns out to be that old literatus of the libido, David Herbert Lawrence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Latest literatus to attempt this particular impossibility is Author Golding who plants his small potatoes in neat rows on either side Magnolia Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is noteworthy that his contemporary Adam Murimuth disparages him as "mediocriter literatus, volens tamen magnus clericus reputari," but such disparagement must be taken with the utmost caution.
From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Ernest Chester Thomas
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