Example sentences for: gallant

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

  • Later, living in Paris, Gallant took up the Jamesian theme of innocents abroad, though she sometimes sketched her expatriates with the quicker, more economical strokes of a Hemingway.

  • To that Europe, Gallant brought a new bemused realism and an acquaintance with such petty facts as train schedules and plumbing.

  • If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.

  • Yet, unlike Le Carré, Gallant does not believe in plot, or in speculating on the meaning of her stories.

  • By Gallant's own admission in the introduction, she composes with an eye to craft, not the deeper heart of a story.


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