Example sentences for: flaubert

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

  • Just as an example: I almost wish I didn't know that the inscription Emma Bovary put on the walking stick she gave to her lover, Rodolphe, was stolen verbatim from a gift that Gustave Flaubert got himself, from his lover Louise Colet.

  • In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”

  • The Washington Post 's Marie Arana-Ward goes one better, claiming that Atwood at times rivals Flaubert.

  • Arguing that "Antisocial Personality Disorder" is not really what the DSM says it is, is like arguing that Madame Bovary didn't really do all those things Flaubert said she did.

  • We loved the story and the characters, but we had never heard of Flaubert or Tolstoy.


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