Example sentences for: steiner

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

  • A few years after the book came out, George Steiner himself doubted whether Grass really was the savior of German literature that people were making him out to be in Steiner's name.

  • Steiner knows his Shakespeare, and Shakespeare is no Dichter . The work is too teeming, too multiform; it lacks the felt force of either the presence or absence of God.

  • This is all pure Steiner: high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.

  • This statement harks back to a famous 1958 essay by the literary critic George Steiner, who asked "whether the German language had survived the Hitler era, whether words poisoned by Goebbels and used to regulate and justify Belsen could ever again serve the needs of moral truth and poetic perception."

  • And Steiner has been quietly gathering the authority of his intransigence.


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