Example sentences for: buruma

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  • And having seen one of the famous public schools at rather too close quarters back when I was 14, during your sabbatical year in London, I think that if I were British, I'd be more likely to approach those charming and inessential aspects of British society with a box of explosives than with the Spectator 's pious reverence (and on the Speccie in particular, you'll remember Ian Buruma's devastating account of the place in his book Anglomania ).

  • "The dishonesty with which Wolf presents this case is almost childish" (Ian Buruma, the New Republic ). But a few consider "the Dapper Don of the Stasi" credible.

  • ("This typically German combination of dark ecology and Nazi trauma found such disfavor," Buruma continues, "that Grass went off to India to sulk."

  • Culturebox has not read Grass' 1987 novel The Rat , but Ian Buruma has described it as "tales of the end of mankind, with the German chancellor riding through the forest in which concentration-camp victims disguised as mutilated fairy-tale characters were roaming around the poisoned trees."

  • For the Occidentalist "creed of Islamist revolutionaries," see, e.g., Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (Penguin Press, 2004).


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