Example sentences for: rieff

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

  • Before he became the intellectual conscience of the new world order, Rieff was an editor, reviewer, and travel writer.

  • The nonimmigrant residents of Miami and Los Angeles appear in Rieff's books to be, if not entirely clueless about what's going on around them, then at least hopelessly unable to explain it.

  • He is certainly the most visible, holding forth in the pages of everything from the Wall Street Journal to the New Republic to Salmagundi . More than any other journalist, Rieff has tried to mold the lessons of Bosnia and Rwanda into a coherent worldview.

  • While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban émigrés' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.

  • More amazing still is that Rieff couches his saber rattling in the language of dissent.


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