Example sentences for: barthelme

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

  • Reading Barthelme may make you think of Surrealism, of Pop Art, of various species of what used to be called bricolage, but what came to my mind, revisiting his stories after a long absence, was the mile-a-minute channel-switching in the monologues of Robin Williams.

  • I started picking up The New Yorker , back when I was a sprout, in order to read Donald Barthelme.

  • Such is Barthelme's power when he's operating at full throttle--his piano seems to have 888 keys.

  • Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.

  • There is a transcription of a 1975 fiction symposium in which Barthelme says relatively little and the reader is mostly subjected to vast snowdrifts of abstraction courtesy of Gass.


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