Example sentences for: chekhovian

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

  • The New Yorker 's John Lahr says American audiences simply can't understand Chekhovian ennui.

  • Boys in the Band than a gay Big Chill ," says Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly . The New York Times ' Stephen Holden, in dissent, extols the film's "richly nuanced" performances and its "intense mood of Chekhovian sadness."

  • The terseness, the immense taciturn gravity, makes the note truly Chekhovian.

  • In venerable Chekhovian fashion, what happens on the surface only hints at the titanic plates that shift beneath, but the actresses--especially Streep, Thompson, Kathy Burke, and Brid Brennan--are supreme at conveying what's at stake.

  • In the early pages of The Cornel West Reader, he describes himself "a Chekhovian Christian with deep democratic commitments," "a Gramscian democratic socialist," a "non-Marxist socialist," and a "prophetic, Christian pragmatist freedom fighter."


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