Example sentences for: hooch

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

  • "Most of his art expresses a clear moral point of view," writes Peter Sutton, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and the world's leading authority on de Hooch, "above all of the values of patriarchal Dutch society and their celebration of domestic virtue."

  • Current critical consensus is that de Hooch was the innovator, Vermeer the perfecter, while current taste (as evidenced by the overwhelming attendance at the Vermeer show in Washington three years ago) prefers Vermeer.

  • At a time when Holland was experiencing a surfeit of prosperity--what Simon Schama calls its "embarrassment of riches"--de Hooch was apparently left out in the cold.

  • Here's another way to look at de Hooch's pictures: Where Vermeer is serene and transcendent, de Hooch is edgy and ill at ease.

  • In Swann's Way , Marcel Proust compared the little phrase of the composer Vinteuil, the "national anthem" of Swann's love for Odette, to one of "those interiors by Pieter de Hooch which are deepened by the narrow frame of a half-opened door, in the far distance, of a different color, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light."


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