Example sentences for: delmore

How can you use “delmore” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was in many ways an almost inevitable project for me: I am from Chicago, Bellow's turf; my first biography, of Delmore Schwartz, had closely paralleled Humboldt's Gift , Bellow's novel about Schwartz; I was steeped in the Jewish immigrant world he wrote about.

  • My way was to creep up, toss in a grenade--"Delmore considered you a serious menace to criticism"--then melt away before he could get off a shot.

  • Less amusing, but more typical, is an 1983 essay by James Atlas in The Atlantic Monthly , in which he offers up the spectacle of himself cringing at the feet of the New York intellectuals who helped him with his biography of poet Delmore Schwartz--and equally nasty portraits of the intellectuals themselves.


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