Example sentences for: rorty

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

  • For Rorty to brush aside even these conflicts as the nuances of ancient history is both crude and an offense to those liberals who were on the right side.

  • Those denied visas included philosopher Richard Rorty and several Nobel laureates, who were to participate in a conference with independent Serbian intellectuals.

  • But for some reason, Richard Rorty's new book, Achieving Our Country , which is based on a series of lectures delivered last year at Harvard, seems to be having that effect.

  • Philosopher Richard Rorty (whose work was the topic of "Out of Left Field" in Slate ) has given up his chair at the University of Virginia (and a salary that made him the highest-paid public employee in the state) in favor of a nontenured post at Stanford, where he'll teach until he retires--or until a better offer comes along.

  • But even if these old battles somehow were to cease to seem relevant, which they might to a generation raised in a world without communism, it is hard to imagine a revival of interest in the kind of democratic-socialist program Rorty sees as the essence of national betterment.


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