Example sentences for: bildungsroman

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

  • The Kennedy Bildungsroman --his coming-of-age, from fumbling the Bay of Pigs invasion to resolving the Cuban missile crisis--is a tired tale, but newly validated by The Kennedy Tapes , Ernest May and Philip Zelikow's edition of the transcripts of those crucial ExComm meetings of October 1962.

  • Isolation and introspection, those staples of the Bildungsroman , scrape at young Coetzee's sensibilities, refining them raw.

  • McCourt is the pixie-faced, white-haired, thick-brogued raconteur who wrote Angela's Ashes , a Bildungsroman explaining how the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk from Limerick, Ireland, became the kind of man who could write a witty, heartbreaking memoir about being the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk, etc.


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