Example sentences for: lesy

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  • Less conventionally ambitious, and possibly more affecting because of it, is Michael Lesy's Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century , a collection of turn-of-the-century photographic postcards that are both graphically gorgeous and spiritually haunting.

  • Such photos--compiled in Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip and elsewhere--now appear macabre.

  • Lesy's text--a filled-in time line that notes such events as the founding of department stores, the rise of banks and financial institutions, and the erection of famous public monuments--creates, in combination with the pictures, a retrospective mood that isn't nostalgia but a finer, more elevated yearning.


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