Example sentences for: mayakovsky

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

  • The sum of these unholy things, Mayakovsky suggests, is the feeding of his soul, the making of his poetry.

  • It would be culturally blasphemous to draw too close a parallel between an advertising symbol like Joe Camel and a tragic figure like Mayakovsky, who shot himself the year after he wrote his drama about the interplay of freedom, pleasure, and risk.

  • In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.

  • Rodchenko's designs--in red and black, crisply diagonal, filled with visual hooks and slams--are still being aped today, and some of them manage to look more modern than anything around now (Mayakovsky's apparently catchy rhymed slogans, unfortunately, do not translate well).

  • When Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy in 1921--which permitted a limited amount of capitalist competition in order to restore some of the country's cash flow--Rodchenko and Mayakovsky became the advertising agency for many of the state's manufacturing and retail operations, which, in a sense, let them have their cake and eat it, too.


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