Example sentences for: essays

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

  • And Other College Essays

  • And they write hard books--post-structuralist literary criticism, feminist theory, post-analytic philosophy--as well as memoirs and essays for an audience outside the academy.

  • In other words, there are some who believe that we might be well advised to attend to what Milton, Donne, Dryden, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Alcott, Dickens, and thousands of others have contributed to the molding of the language in all its reflexes and who find it difficult to understand the usefulness to be derived from an analysis of idle telephone and flatmate conversations, student essays read by no one other than the instructor charged with their marking, business letters read by no one other than their (individual) recipients, non-printed examination scripts exposed to nobody, social letters, classroom lessons, business transactions (between, for example, architect and 2 clients and solicitor and client), and so on.

  • More than one call it "Altman lite" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) and say "[t]he fabled Altman atmosphere fails to jell" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). A small cadre is seriously disappointed: "another footnote to an Altman career that is fast becoming all footnotes" (Richard Corliss, Time ) or, more simply, "[h]e falters again" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (For more on director Robert Altman, visit this site, which has links to interviews and essays about him, and read Edelstein's review Friday in Slate .)

  • , the collected film criticism of Dwight MacDonald); and some art writing, considerably more savvy although many of the pieces originated as catalog essays and thus sometimes betray a rather forced enthusiasm.


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