Example sentences for: merkin

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

  • But its take on religion is simple-minded: "In this novel one is either a messianist or a nonbeliever" (Jonathan Rosen, the New York Times Book Review ). A few reviewers say he succeeds entirely: "Leave it to a goy to write the definitive novel about Israel" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ).

  • In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls "a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch."

  • The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says the film "underrates our intelligence."

  • In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand deems the film an inferior version of The English Patient . The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin declares James unfilmable.

  • The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says it's akin to "a great nineteenth-century novel that presumes on its reader's infinite patience."


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