Example sentences for: lenin

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

  • Many Russians who find Lenin's public resting place a macabre embarrassment think his soul will only rest (and theirs with it) once he goes underground.

  • Stalin's face juxtaposed with Lenin's bier in a 1939 photomontage can be imagined as mourning only by an effort of will; he is sidelit, vampiric, sinister--but then Stalin rarely fails to look sinister in photographs, and this is not merely a matter of the viewer's preconceptions.

  • But while Stoppard has slummed a bit for the big screen, he has done some of his most serious and demanding work for the small one: Professional Foul , a 1977 BBC commission, addressed the moral dilemmas faced by a group of English academics at a philosophical conference in Prague; and Squaring the Circle: Poland 1980-81 , broadcast in 1984, brought the playful self-consciousness of Travesties to the deadly serious events surrounding the Lenin Shipyard strike and the subsequent government crackdown.

  • The state can no longer even afford to pay Lenin's embalmers.

  • Second, they're a refuge, said Tom Stoppard, in Travesties --Zurich, World War I, home to Lenin, Joyce, and Tzara: "Oh, Switzerland!


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