Example sentences for: sontag

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

  • The idea of the book, as Susan Sontag explains in her opening essay, is to demonstrate the amazing diversity of women.

  • A couple of years ago, Susan Sontag argued in an article in the New York Times Magazine that the decline of film quality is a demand-driven problem.

  • In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.

  • Only in one clause does Sontag hint at the conditions underlying the book--"today's hugely complex fashion-and-photography system," she calls it--but the topic at hand is something else, and she veers away.

  • His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.


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