Example sentences for: gould

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

  • It offers a case in point from one of the 17 volumes of The Lives of the Saints , a massive work written between 1872 and 1889 by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), the English clergyman who is best remembered as the author of the hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

  • Gould begins by distorting a basic evolutionary psychology argument: that because men can reproduce more often and more easily than women, natural selection (which favors traits conducive to genetic proliferation) has made the minds of men and women different.

  • Lois Gould was writing about ready-to-wear fashion, which tends to be dealt with all the more hysterically (see Robert Altman's film Prêt-a-Porter ) for there being huge amounts of money at stake in the success or failure of its collections.

  • Still, the fact that evolutionary psychologists don't view desertion as standard male procedure vaporizes what Gould considers one of his killer arguments: "Any man who has fiercely loved his little child--including most fathers, I trust--knows that no siren song from distinctive[ly male] genes or hormones can overcome this drive for nurturing behavior shared with the child's mother."

  • Gould doesn't name names.


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