Example sentences for: cornel

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

  • The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.

  • The cover story proposes that the AFL-CIO fund (to the tune of $300 million) a national progressive newspaper--a factory-floor counterpart to the Wall Street Journal . The paper would report the real news about economic inequality, farm workers, and health care, zealously investigate corporate executives, and open its editorial pages to the likes of Cornel West, Molly Ivins, and Robert Kuttner.

  • The just-published Cornel West Reader is dedicated to John Coltrane, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Tennessee Williams, Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Vaughn, Muriel Rukeyser, Thomas Hardy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Toni Morrison, "and above all," Anton Chekhov.

  • Like you, I wish Gates and Cornel West would take sabbaticals and embark on the kind of lasting work they're both capable of.

  • Kudos to Jacob Weisberg for reading Cornel West on his own instead of relying on Leon Wieseltier's version.


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