Example sentences for: dostoyevsky

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

  • With his susceptibility to ridicule and parody, his air of furtive portentousness, his apocalyptic Manichaean vision of purity overtaken by disease, his dazzling displays of the uncanny intuitive skills that sometimes accompany obsession, he was a pulp-fiction Dostoyevsky, an author he admired above all others.

  • Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy.

  • She notes Chambers' "susceptibility to ridicule and parody," and concludes that "he was a pulp-fiction Dostoyevsky, an author he admired above all others."

  • Dostoyevsky?

  • She implies that he was ridiculous for admiring Dostoyevsky.


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