Example sentences for: mobilio

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

  • "[A] book as moving as Job's" (Thomas Mallon, the New York Times Book Review ). "[B]eguilingly poetic" (Albert Mobilio, the Village Voice ). As they invariably do with art by and/or about invalids, critics grandiloquently pronounce the book a "testament to the human spirit" (Malcolm Jones Jr., Newsweek ). (Click here for excerpts.)

  • "Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...

  • In the middle of Cardine IV, the House of Charred Furniture (Casa del Mobilio Carbonizzato) has a uniquely preserved latticed divan bed and small table.

  • As Albert Mobilio writes in the Village Voice Literary Supplement , "the questions with which James Joyce and Flannery O'Connor pried at Catholic doctrine he now aims at Orthodox Judaism."


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