Example sentences for: karenina

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

  • Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.

  • The second essay wittily assesses the literary value of the report, comparing it with classic novels of adultery such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina . Starr offers unnecessarily colorful detail: "Instead of prosecuting a case, his narrative enacts a drama, and makes sympathetically banal what might have been merely illegal."

  • It was really Anna Karenina ! But even I don't want to watch those old movies for more than a few minutes.

  • Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.


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