Example sentences for: rieff

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

  • If "intellectual" were a title like "baron" that could be inherited, few people would have a stronger claim to it than David Rieff.

  • His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.

  • Rieff's Newsweek piece did allow that, in spite of having "to fight a just war with one hand tied behind its back ...

  • Rieff's interventionist stances on Bosnia and Rwanda evade such reckoning.

  • If that question has, for the moment at least, been answered, you won't hear it from David Rieff.


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