Example sentences for: borges

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

  • With its echoes of Jorge Luis Borges, Stanley Kubrick, even Frank Henenlotter's great splatter flick Brain Damage (1988), the whole movie is so hyperalert that it seems pitched on the verge of a stroke.

  • But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.

  • This essay is, in a way, about how we avoid becoming Borges's character Funes, who could not understand repeated observations as exemplars of a common rule and thus could not synthesize and categorize.

  • —Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes the Memorius”

  • What distinguishes Saramago from Borges is his tenderness and his explicit, even obsessive, curiosity about human emotion.


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