Example sentences for: lehmann-

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  • A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).

  • On the positive side: It's a compelling document "of a life marked by high seriousness, good conscience and an utter refusal to submit to evil and oppression" (Jonathan Groner, the Washington Post Book World ), and upon reading it you "become persuaded that something about his combination of seeming innocence and moral honesty has the power to move if not mountains then those who have the most power" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). But complaints against the book are uniform: 1) This volume "feels anti-climactic" (Duane Davis, Denver Rocky Mountain News ) when compared with his first because it lacks the kind of compelling events that shaped his early life.

  • One shortcoming: The plot "veers into melodrama that seems a bit outsize for the scale of events that lead to it" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Click here for the Le Divorce page on the Dutton site.)

  • The critics can't say enough about her tight, honed prose: She gets the speech patterns just right ("a stunningly authentic voice," declares Michael Knight in the Wall Street Journal ), she writes "sentences whose specific gravity mysteriously exceeds their size" (Walter Kirn, New York ), and her characters have an "absolute authenticity" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Listen to this CBC interview with Proulx.)

  • Some argue that the "iron lady" spins an inspirational feminist tale--"the story of a pioneer," says the New York Times ' Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.


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