Example sentences for: rushdie

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

  • Some of her British critics would agree that Roy and Rushdie indeed have little in common.

  • In Italy, La Stampa dwelt on the coincidence of Salman Rushdie's arrival in the country, on the same day as Khatami, to receive an honorary degree from the University of Turin.

  • The all-star edition features elegiac pieces from Clive James, Simon Schama, Salman Rushdie, and editor/Di-acquaintance Tina Brown (Brown also did TV commentary for NBC at the funeral).

  • Their family home, Ayemenem, is located in the comparatively remote southern state of Kerala, a region that Westerners who might know Rushdie's Delhi or Naipaul's Bombay from reading their fiction might not recognize.

  • In Corriere della Sera , a front-page comment by Tullio Kezich, headlined "Shame on you, Hollywood," complained that "this undisputed giant of the Seventh Art" won only one Oscar, and that only for the special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey . In La Repubblica , in which his death was the main front-page lead Monday, Michele Serra compared him to Salman Rushdie, but as a fugitive from "another kind of fatwa, a typically Western one: condemnation to fame, photographs and interviews, television and awards ceremonies, juries and society; because he was, after all, the most famous and celebrated living author of the most important language of the century, the cinema."


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