Example sentences for: diggins

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

  • I would hope more compassionately and with greater understanding of the unique fabric of our times, and the humility to appreciate the giant steps made by those in the past, than such liberal mythologists as Diggins.

  • John Patrick Diggins is living in a world of phantoms when he uses the myth of Lincoln as a hammer to smash the myth of Thomas Jefferson's record on individual liberty and civil rights in "Nothing to Declare," his review of Pauline Maier's American Scripture .

  • Diggins forgets, in his discompassionate and deluded rewriting of history, that Lincoln was no NAACP poster boy himself.

  • "An outstanding work of research and analysis, written with grace and wit," says Slate's John Patrick Diggins.

  • So how, exactly, does Diggins find Lincoln to be such a sterling moral example, fit to shame Jefferson?


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