Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an autobiographic manner.
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- adverb In a
autobiographical manner.
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Examples
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Veteran filmmaker Ira Sach's autobiographically inspired, intensely vulnerable, and sexually charged Keep The Lights On chronicles the drug-induced disintegration of an impassioned relationship between an emerging documentary filmmaker and a closeted lawyer living in New York in the 1990s.
Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2012 Top Picks: Keeping Us Human Roya Rastegar 2012
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I would never write autobiographically as I tend to write as an alternative to my life, not a repetition or imitation of it.
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Hemingway's weaker novels are more autobiographically revealing than his best fiction.
Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011
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Hemingway's weaker novels are more autobiographically revealing than his best fiction.
Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011
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Almost every self-respecting teacher wishes to write autobiographically or biographically at some stage of his or her life -- but with no knowledge of how to do so, beyond self-help books such as my little How to Do Biography: A Primer, which Harvard University Press published in 2008.
Nigel Hamilton: On Biography Nigel Hamilton 2010
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"It was an awful mistake to try to write autobiographically about your love life."
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I speak here autobiographically, and not of some vanished world long ago but of the 1960s when I made my way to the United States the world was altogether different.
Islam's Nowhere Men 2010
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The biggest error the doubters make, Shapiro says, is to believe that dramatists and other authors in Shakespeare's day made a habit of autobiographically inserting themselves into their own works.
Taking On The Doubters Craig Silver 2010
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As time progresses, the voices of child and adolescent survivors — well into in their adult years by the time they write autobiographically — is added to the accumulation of memory narratives, in the next wave of memoirs.
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For author and reader, that predicament — the naïf thrust into murderous History — was always potentially, or actually (autobiographically), his own.
The Western Front 2009
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"I decide which car to purchase after looking at the pictures", said Tom autobiographically.
March 20, 2007