Example sentences for: eagleton

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  • Students at less prestigious British universities will soon be able to take courses with such Oxford and Cambridge luminaries as physicist Steven Hawking, literary critic Terry Eagleton, and paleontologist Richard Dawkins, through a national system of video linkups.

  • Thomas Eagleton, days after being chosen as George McGovern's running mate, resigned from the Democratic ticket after revealing that he had undergone hospitalization and electroshock therapy for depression.

  • Other essays include: "Edible Ecriture," by British Marxist Terry Eagleton, which argues that Samuel Beckett's anorexic prose may betray "a race memory of the Irish famine"; and "Savouring the Antique," by classicist Emily Gower, which warns against romanticizing the Roman bacchanalia, since "most ordinary people experienced famine and lived at subsistence level."

  • The ostensible truth multiplier 1,000 percent (from George McGovern's 1972 avowal of support for his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton, whom he claimed to support "1,000 percent" and then summarily dropped from the ticket) is now an ironic synonym for "don't bet on it" or even "not on your life."

  • Personally, I don't think that what stands in the way of Rorty's utopia is the failure of Frederic Jameson and Terry Eagleton to endorse it.


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