Example sentences for: pynchon

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

  • When Washington reveals that French explorers have buried mysterious metal plates up and down the frontier, die-hard Pynchon fans will lick their chops.

  • Critics describe this detective novel, the author's first, as "part Thomas Pynchon, part Ralph Ellison" (Dan Cryer, New York Newsday ) and praise Whitehead as a refreshingly original voice.

  • Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon amasses more raves, notably from Louis Menand in the New York Review of Books and T. Coraghessan Boyle in the New York Times Book Review . Writes Boyle, "Mason & Dixon is a groundbreaking book, a book of heart and fire and genius, and there is nothing quite like it in our literature, except maybe V. and Gravity's Rainbow .".

  • Saussy III does not know what hysteresis means and missed Pynchon's metaphor by a mile; horripilating does not mean `shuddering' (though the rest of the definition is correct); houghmagandy is defined as `fucking as a pastime,' the last three words of which make in inaccurate; the usual spelling of gallimaufrey is without the e; gibbous , usually applied to the three-quarter moon, is here defined as “hump-backed, arched” with the citation, “..

  • Why is Pynchon left alone and Salinger harassed?


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