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.

  • (I like the woman in Peter De Vries' novel, Forever Panting , who spoke about John Jock Rousseau.)

  • Masterpieces by Cézanne, Renoir, Utrillo, Rousseau, Modigliani, Picasso, Derain, and Soutine hang in the upstairs rooms.

  • Stimulated by the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, the country’s intellectuals were more keenly aware of being Europeans, but also Italians.

  • 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.


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