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Example sentences for: qua

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

The fundamental problem with the Emmys qua Emmys (aside from the fact, as I learned from the Times this morning, that the voters are volunteers, disproportionately elderly, and unemployed) is that most shows on television are series--and so the same shows and writers and actors-playing-the-same-characters get Emmys year after year.
Here I'm thinking of Mark Lindquist in the Times Book Review ("while Ethan Coen [qua screenwriter] isn't quite as stylish with language as his brother is with a camera, he does have a distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview") or Renee Graham in the Boston Globe ("As with his films, his failures are often almost as interesting as other writers' successes."
In his Iberia (Random House, 1968), James A. Michener said duende “now dominates Spanish conversation” and “seems to have become the sine qua non of Spanish existence,” whereas in previous visits to Spain he had not heard it at all.
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The effectiveness of the policy can be seen by making a quick analysis of the language spoken by Oliver Twist: Dickens, qua social reformer, knew perfectly well that if Oliver hadn't somehow come to speak the Queen's English, he wouldn't have made it.