Example sentences for: brodkey

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

  • Brodkey expresses enormous ambivalence about his own later-life adventures in homosexuality, referring, at one unsavory moment, to his illness as "the wages of sin."

  • His new parents became physically ill, which exacerbated their psychological torture of their son (so much one could have gathered already from Brodkey's fiction).

  • Brodkey's work was always obviously, insistently, autobiographical--but one could get muddled trying to decide if, for instance, this story's narrator from a St. Louis suburb was the same as that story's narrator from a St. Louis suburb.

  • Either way, Brodkey embraces a self-absorption so extreme that it succeeds, paradoxically, in turning him into an Everyman:

  • There is--unsurprisingly, given Brodkey's reputation--no shortage here of paranoia and score-settling.


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