Example sentences for: himmelfarb

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

  • Professional moralist Gertrude Himmelfarb and conservative economist Milton Friedman won $25,000 lifetime-achievement awards.

  • We invited Gertrude Himmelfarb, the historian, to exchange e-mail for a week with journalist Andrew Sullivan about whatever struck them as interesting in the news that day.

  • Himmelfarb (who is married to Irving Kristol, the neoconservative thinker) tortured us by saying it sounded like a good conversation over the breakfast table--which is just what we have in mind--but that she'd rather keep her own views to her own breakfast table.

  • "Inappropriate" easily outstripped "evil," a word that appeared in the Congressional Record a mere 250 times, though--William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and other denouncers of moral relativism take note-- it still lagged behind "wrong," which appeared in excess of 999 times (the CR search engine doesn't count beyond three digits).

  • But that did give us a name for this experimental dialogue--"The Breakfast Table"--and we did line up Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, who is no mean consolation prize, to share cyberkrispies with Sullivan starting Wednesday, April 8. And we hope neither the vigorously conservative Himmelfarb nor the vigorously left-wing Pollitt is offended at the notion that they are what used to be called "moral equivalents."


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