Example sentences for: oedipal

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

  • Some kind of oedipal thing," he did not add.

  • Plus, I worry that this ever so slightly Oedipal situation is going to get in the way of his commitment to me.

  • A "cold, contemptuous, and interminable Oedipal saga," says the Village Voice 's J. Hoberman, "just a big, static snooze."

  • An Oedipal permutation of this theory blames his affairs specifically on an early deficit of motherly attention and notes that many of his alleged lovers bear a resemblance to Virginia.

  • The Fox panel has fun with Time 's report that the Gore campaign had been paying feminist celebrity Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month (laundered through a faceless consultant agency) to advise the candidate on his wardrobe and on his Oedipal relationship with Clinton, among other things.


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