Words similar to nineteenth-century

Example sentences for: nineteenth-century

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The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says it's akin to "a great nineteenth-century novel that presumes on its reader's infinite patience."
In spite of the fact that his nineteenth-century biases are very apparent in his writings, the data he collected are valuable for the study of Chicano folklore of the Texas-Mexican border.
Some find it squarely in the tradition of "the nineteenth-century novel of adultery" (James Wood, the New Republic ). Others call it a combination of "low-grade erotica," "bedroom farce," "detective pulp," and "courtroom drama" (L.S.
Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.
Take jackeroo , for instance, the name given to a young Englishman of independent means who came out to Australia to gain colonial experience by working in a supernumerary capacity on a sheep or cattle station, who enrolled in the nineteenth-century equivalent of a senior management course, either genuinely to learn self-reliance or gracefully to take himself off his family's hands.