Example sentences for: oates

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  • leisure (which is now relatively less expensive), work less, and lower taxable income (Parry and Oates, 2000).

  • Max, the New York Times Book Review ). Many critics marvel at Oates' prolific output: "It's a wonder she hasn't run out of that all-too-scarce literary fuel, imagination.

  • Critics praise Véra for the details it reveals about the Nabokovs' intense marriage--she was his "editor, typist, secretary, chauffeur, nursemaid, go-between, buffer, researcher and butterfly-catching companion" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). But when you get down to it, "this is really a potted biography of Vladimir Nabokov, told from an unusual angle" (Michael Dirda, the Washington Post ). The PEN celebration featured readings by and about the Nabokovs by Joyce Carol Oates, Dimitri Nabokov, David Remnick, and Véra author Stacy Schiff.

  • Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.

  • Soon after his return, Maggs encounters Tobias Oates, a novelist and self-styled "cartographer" of the "Criminal Mind," of which Maggs is soon forced to become the hapless embodiment.


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