Example sentences for: dickensian

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

  • Hoberman, the New York Times Book Review ). Set in 1830s New York, the book features an eclectic cast of characters--hucksters, one-legged actresses, anti-Semitic pamphleteers, a man who tries to establish a Jewish state in upstate New York--who combine to form "a richly textured, almost Dickensian community" (Alexandra Lange, New York ). The New Yorker calls it "a work of singular, surreal vision."

  • One could write a longish essay on the allusions conjured up by the words Dickensian, Kafkaesque , and Orwellian , yet none of these (among thousands of others) are represented.

  • Characters like Gault and Grethen are the basis of the standard praise for Cornwell, which is that she has a Dickensian grasp of evil.

  • Temple and Carrie are cartoon meanies who hate Scarpetta for no apparent reason; they're about as Dickensian as a satanic clown doll named Chuckie.

  • Why would a lexicographer snatch up a unique, Dickensian creation, gag him and bind his real persona hand and foot, then slyly stand an impersonator in his place?


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