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Example sentences for: essayist

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His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.
The first piece was an unsigned Dec. 18 editorial in the Economist , endorsing the opinion of an essayist from the British Foreign Office who considers irony a necessary virtue in a post-colonial world: It "suggests a certain modesty about oneself, one's values, and one's aspirations.
Also, an essayist deplores his own investments in global mutual funds: His money helps repressive governments and exploitative foreign companies (But you can't beat the profits, he admits).
I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.
As a Newsweek essayist puts it, the team is "having some fun--not to mention making some profit--with America's sexual obsession."