Example sentences for: benfey

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  • ' " (See also Christopher Benfey's review in Slate of the Tiepolo exhibits.)

  • I was irritated at Christopher Benfey's criticism, in "True Confessions" (his review of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters ), of the idea that Sylvia Plath might have been helped by a psychiatrist.

  • Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)

  • A rising consensus deems Hughes' Birthday Letters mediocre poetry: "slack and secondhand" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). ...

  • I suspect Benfey feels that her early death by suicide was somehow ordained, and has something to do with her status as a poet.


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