Example sentences for: gleick

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

  • Although Faster is full of interesting details of how the brain perceives time and how technology both steals and adds minutes to our lives, several critics note that Gleick never makes a definitive conclusion about the data he has collected.

  • The brittle, shallow, single, gold-digging, thirtysomething protagonist of Janowitz's latest hate letter to Manhattan is pronounced so unpleasant as to make the entire novel (which follows her search for a suitably rich and connected husband) quite a drag: "A hateful heroine and a catalog of conspicuous consuming do not an amusing read make" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). "One of the least likable characters in modern fiction history.

  • James Gleick in his 1992 biography, Genius, the Life and Science of Richard Feynman , quoted the Harvard philosopher, W.V. Quine: I think that for scientific purposes the best we can do is give up the notion of knowledge as a bad job...

  • That is disappointing, if only because we have such high expectations from this author" (Jim Holt, the Wall Street Journal ). It's "as if Gleick couldn't quite make the short leap from being merely a superb reporter to an astute social thinker" (Henry Kisor, the Chicago Sun-Times ). (Click here to find out more about the author.)

  • On the topic of these blurred times, I just read an interesting review of James Gleick's new book, Faster , in New York magazine.


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