literati

Example Sentences

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Florence interviews and then lands what must surely be one of the most coveted gigs for any young person yearning to break into the inner circles of the literati: personal assistant to Maud Dixon.

From Washington Post

Her parents were both “superb entertainers” and their house was always full of literati, including Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.

From New York Times

It is a contempt that male genre writers don’t suffer, she says, pointing to the recent vogue among the literati for Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels.

From The Guardian

Once Cummins’s genetic shortcomings caught the attention of social media’s literati, it was off to the bonfires.

From Washington Post

It also won her deep disapproval from the country’s male literati.

From The Guardian