What is "biographical"

Usage examples of "biographical".

They bear, in the context of these infantile biographical associations, no anagogical, transpersonal relevancy whatsoever, but are allegorical merely of childhood desires frustrated by actual or imagined parental prohibitions and threats.

When you are ready to choose an arbitrator for your case, the service will send you a list with the names of half a dozen or more arbitrators, sometimes with a brief biographical sketch of each.

Miss Letty was altogether too wholesome, hearty, and high-strung a young girl to be a model, according to the flat-chested and cachectic pattern which is the classical type of certain excellent young females, often the subjects of biographical memoirs.

The works of Abul Khair, previously mentioned, and of Haji Khalfa, embody a mass of information, and constitute the top of the pyramid of encyclopaedical and biographical works, after which nothing worthy of mention has been written on these subjects.

With the exception of Ray Bradbury, on whose career several monographs have been published, the material in this book represents the most complete biographical and critical treatment the several authors discussed have ever received.

This is a departure from the initial major treatments, such as those by Politzer, Sokel, and Emrich, which, although attentive to linguistic issues, tended to subordinate them to psychological, sociological, formal, and biographical considerations.

Everything, whether critical or biographical, that De Quincey wrote on Coleridgian matters requires, with whatever discount, to be carefully studied.

This author is worthy of notice, on account of the Arabic works he wrote on biographical, historical, and especially encyclopaedic subjects.

It may be truly said that this writer, along with Ibn Khallikan, laid the foundations of the records of the edifice of encyclopaedical and biographical works, which was afterwards completed by Haji Khalfa and Abul Khair.

The works of Abul Khair, previously mentioned, and of Haji Khalfa, embody a mass of information, and constitute the top of the pyramid of encyclopaedical and biographical works, after which nothing worthy of mention has been written on these subjects.

Chief school tablets with notes about the Indians, comments on their relations with the White man, and biographical information about his own life.

I happened to be carrying among my papers a portrait of Poe from a biographical article published a few years before.

Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the most eminent of the English Poets, published by the booksellers of London.

Orphu had downloaded the French language in all of its classic intricacies along with the novel and biographical information on Proust, but Mahnmut ended up reading the book in five English translations because English was the lost language he had concentrated his own studies in over the past e-century and a half and he felt more comfortable judging literature in it.

My friend Dr. Kippis has told me, that on this account it is a practice with him to draw out a biographical catechism.