Example sentences for: spevack

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

  • Professor Spevack and his colleagues have charted the countries of Shakespeare's mind, casting a new and penetrating light on the infinite variety of his imagination.

  • Those who have always thought (or been taught) that Hamlet's Get thee to a nunnery rudely suggests that poor Ophelia hie herself to a brothel, Professor Spevack, ignoring Eric Partridge and other Shakespeare scholars, will have none of that interpretation.

  • An inspired originator of compounds ( cloud-capp'd towers; home-keeping wits), Shakespeare created no fewer than 273 for anatomy alone, cited with almost palpable enthusiasm by Professor Spevack.

  • In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.

  • Not that the world's oldest profession is in any way slighted in the book and volume of Professor Spevack's brain: under strumpet (main heading Humans, Family, Friendship) there are fifty-eight references, among them, blowze, giglet, stewed prune, and quail.


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