Example sentences for: beckett

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

  • Literature has always flourished in Dublin, the only city to have produced three Nobel Prize winners for literature — Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett.

  • Like the final scene of A Winter's Tale , or the last speech of The Tempest ? This standard for literary achievement would also discredit any work in the modernist tradition--for example Brecht's and Beckett's plays.

  • That scene is like a mini Beckett farce with a cruel jet of gore for a punch line.

  • While the Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College is mainly for drama students, it brings in some interesting shows in from outside.

  • Other essays include: "Edible Ecriture," by British Marxist Terry Eagleton, which argues that Samuel Beckett's anorexic prose may betray "a race memory of the Irish famine"; and "Savouring the Antique," by classicist Emily Gower, which warns against romanticizing the Roman bacchanalia, since "most ordinary people experienced famine and lived at subsistence level."


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