Example sentences for: esprit

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

  • The more typical ESPRIT decor is, in fact, wall-to-wall paper--much of it in curious Euro-colours like mauve and puce.

  • A study of successful ESPRIT acronyms (i.e.

  • For instance, paperless is emphatically not the first adjective that springs to mind to describe the office of an ESPRIT participant.

  • Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .

  • (These are real ESPRIT projects, by the way.


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