Example sentences for: haskell

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  • Gore is the "Eddie Haskell energizer bunny" while Bradley has the "insouciance of Dean Martin and the iciness of John Malkovich," says Margaret Carlson (CNN's Capital Gang ). Kate O'Beirne ( Capital Gang ) thinks Bradley's ideological similarity to Gore helps him, because the voters will focus on personal style rather than policy.

  • And Molly Haskell says the film "demeans and demotes women outrageously."

  • (The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."

  • By shoveling so much in, Barbara Haskell, the Whitney curator who put together the exhibition, seems to be trying to build a case that American art in the first half of the 20 th century was up to the standard of European art.

  • But Haskell damns all efforts to make Tiepolo a painter for our time: "[We] are most reluctant to admit that the finest art can flourish in harmony with the ruling classes and without the tensions that beset us now, so that, where necessary, we try to detect such tensions in the art of the past."


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