Example sentences for: novella

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

  • Book -- The Actual: A Novella , by Saul Bellow;

  • Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.

  • His revision of his untitled novella now began:

  • Our itineraries divide the city’s heart into four quarters: from the Duomo north to Piazza San Marco; from the Piazza della Signoria, its Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Galleries east to Piazza Santa Croce; from the Mercato Nuovo west to Piazza Santa Maria Novella; and the southern “Left Bank” of the Arno River around the Pitti Palace and the Piazzale Michelangelo.

  • Most reviewers pillory the film's highly publicized group-sex scene, in which human figures were digitally inserted to avoid an NC-17 rating: "the most pompous orgy in the history of the movies" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), and "one of the least erotic orgies ever filmed" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click for Slate critic David Edelstein's review and for an "Explainer" on Arthur Schnitzler, who wrote the novella that Eyes Wide Shut is based on.


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