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from The Century Dictionary.

  • As an author; after the manner of an author or writer of books.

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  • Yesterday was one of those authorially busy days that involves everything but actually writing: I gave an interview about DESAYUNO EN LA CAMA to the GLBT magazine for the Canary Islands (UXXS Magazine), I had coffee with Javier (who'd already interviewed me for Ambiente-G while I was away so we hadn't had a chance to meet in person), and a lovely dinner with a new publisher to talk about possibilities of working together.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008

  • In 2003 the Gender Genie said I was authorially hermaphroditic as well.

    Hitting the Target « Whatever 2007

  • This gets historical relationships between different media products wrong, but it also asserts by way of "narratological reason" a feature of the game narrative that just doesn't make sense as a deliberate statement or authorially intended communication: Doom is the way it is both because it was technically necessary to limit the number of demons in a given map and because it's no fun to die repeatedly as you're mobbed by 500 demons.

    Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show 2004

  • Oh, I don't think Doom with 200 demons in each map would be fun (not to mention that it would be impossible); I have in mind a narratological claim I heard in conversation (at the Bristol conference, actually), that the narrative structure of Doom was authorially designed to reproduce a typical capitalist-individualist-masculinist narrative of a single male "Horatio Alger" type beating the odds.

    Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show 2004

  • Tim Oh, I don't think Doom with 200 demons in each map would be fun (not to mention that it would be impossible); I have in mind a narratological claim I heard in conversation (at the Bristol conference, actually), that the narrative structure of Doom was authorially designed to reproduce a typical capitalist-individualist-masculinist narrative of a single male "Horatio Alger" type beating the odds.

    Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show 2004

  • I was, authorially speaking, behind the door, and saw and heard as follows:

    The Twins A Domestic Novel Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Require not, however shrewd your guess, my acknowledgment of this brain-child; forgive all unintended harms; supply what is lacking in my charities; politically, socially, authorially, think that I bigotize in theoretic fun, but am incarnate Tolerance for practical earnest.

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • I was, authorially speaking, behind the door, and saw and heard as follows:

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Require not, however shrewd your guess, my acknowledgment of this brain-child; forgive all unintended harms; supply what is lacking in my charities; politically, socially, authorially, think that I bigotize in theoretic fun, but am incarnate Tolerance for practical earnest.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • It was a neat and unique twist, authorially speaking, on the universal plot - no small achievement.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

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