Example sentences for: rousseau

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

  • The national infrastructure is fraying, with little renewal: Belgians have a high per-capita income and spend it generously on cars and dining, but what Rousseau called the esprit social seems lacking.

  • The museum also includes works by fellow painters Braque, Matisse, Miró, Degas, Renoir, and Rousseau collected by Picasso during his lifetime.

  • (Rousseau and Brecht will do for starters; for me, they reek of totalitarianism.

  • Greider brings "the global economic beast to life in all its splendor and horror" (Matthew Miller, in the New York Times ). The passion of his polemic recalls Rousseau and Martin Luther (Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs ). But few are persuaded by Greider's conclusions.

  • And later, à la Rousseau, "As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European mind: I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust."


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