Example sentences for: proust

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

  • One is entitled to speculate on what outrageous proposal the narrator had made in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2—Cities of the Plain (translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff—Modern Library, N.Y., 1934, Page 90) to cause the Duchess to say, “Apart from your balls, can't I be of any use to you?”

  • On the third pass, recalling Proust's admonition to one of his correspondents that if he'd only had time he would have written a shorter letter, I managed to cut another 200 pages.

  • Chromosomes do not exculpate the predators Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, and they certainly cannot reductively account for the prose of Hemingway or Proust.

  • How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel

  • This naturally has sparked a heated debate in France, where attempts to "democratize Proust" affront French custodianship of high culture.


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