Example sentences for: purdy

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

  • I myself thought it'd be cool to take out a full-page ad someplace as an "Open Letter" to the guy from the Onion staff saying "Dear Purdy: We're sorry.

  • Deriding irony is now a reflex not just among the serious, such as Jedediah Purdy, the author of For Common Things , but among the ironic as well.

  • Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes in the New York Times that the book is "impressive if somewhat pious" but finds Purdy's points unoriginal: "He labors at length such crashingly obvious ideas as the ethical ambiguities of technology."

  • Chatterbox agrees with Jedediah Purdy that there's too much of it (though he hasn't bothered to read Purdy's book; Chatterbox feels that William McGowan covered the subject pretty comprehensively in a three-page article* published in the Washington Monthly in 1986, under the headline "Why David Letterman Is Bad for America").

  • Or former Spin editor and wit-about-town Michael Hirschorn, who, agreeing with Purdy in a


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