Example sentences for: sedgwick

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

  • The grounds of the University of British Columbia, one of the most beautiful college campuses in North America, are nearby; the terraced Sedgwick Library and the Faculty Club rose garden are two notable gems set against a superb sea and mountain backdrop.

  • Queer theory luminaries such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michael Moon see sex--preferably unconventional sex--everywhere they look.

  • An entirely innocent passage from Henry James (reprinted for us to judge for ourselves) prompts this from Sedgwick: "[The text] shows how in James a greater self-knowledge and a greater acceptance and specificity of homosexual desire transform this half-conscious enforcing rhetoric of anality, numbness, and silence into a much richer, pregnant address to James's male muse, an invocation to fisting-as-écriture."

  • In America, during the 19th century, the noun rodomontade , spelled rhodomontade, appears in the autobiography of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, whose work dates from 1853.


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