Example sentences for: schama

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

  • My Columbia colleague Simon Schama's Dead Certainties , also now several years old, was a deliberate effort to play with the elusive boundary between fiction and history and to suggest how the two might be fruitfully joined.

  • Schama traces the history of women alienated by the crown: Anne Boleyn, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Princess Caroline of Brunswick (who?)

  • 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).

  • At a time when Holland was experiencing a surfeit of prosperity--what Simon Schama calls its "embarrassment of riches"--de Hooch was apparently left out in the cold.

  • Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as "yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick."


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