Words similar to kirkus

Example sentences for: kirkus

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

This story of a long and stormy love affair between a fallen angel and a 19 th century French vintner is described alternately as having "a ferocious display of inventive power" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and as having "a disconcerting hollowness" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics agree on the flashes of brilliance in her writing; the disagreement is over how consistently Knox puts it all together.
Kirkus Reviews agrees: "A brilliant, masterly, even seminal book."
Unfortunately, Morantz-Sanchez recounts the tale "in academic prose thick enough to thwart all but the most persistent" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Bernstein of the New York Times agrees, complaining that "Ms.
Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."
The Westchester, N.Y., setting makes the story read like "Cheever country on crack" (Norah Vincent, the Boston Globe ). "People will be talking about this one" ( Kirkus Reviews ). (Read an excerpt of the novel here.)