roman
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They call their anonymous frontperson “Vessel” and backing band by roman numerals.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
“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
The find joins more than 6,000 roman coins the British Museum has recorded as being found in Buckinghamshire.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
It looked just as it had in Anorak's Invitation: a simple antique copper key, its oval-shaped bow embossed with the roman numeral “I.”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
In bookstores there was a boomlet in rakishly intelligent literary romans à clef.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
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
The longer of these are romans, the shorter nouvelles, not one has the anecdotical unity required by a conte.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
