Example sentences for: pirandello

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  • Although known as the birthplace of the famous dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Templi) is its showpiece attraction, dating back to the fifth century b.c.

  • Stoppard belongs to an international literary tradition--call it brain-teaser modernism--whose theatrical godfather is Luigi Pirandello, and which includes writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Queneau, and Italo Calvino.

  • "[T]hink of a Friday the 13 th as written by Eugene Ionesco and Luigi Pirandello" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Critics enjoy Craven's self-knowing winks (a film within the film spoofs the original Scream ). Some find the self-consciousness over the top.

  • But Gore Vidal said the mixing of fact with fantasy was appropriate for a president "whose life owed so little to Parson Weems and so much to Pirandello."

  • As were the modernist playwright Luigi Pirandello, the poet d'Annunzio, and the major Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who influenced Collingwood and was minister of education in Mussolini's government.


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