Example sentences for: steiner

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

  • If there is truth to the contention--Steiner is persuasive when he compares various fields and finds that only architecture and modern dance, those uniquely American triumphs, exhibit signs of life--his argument still feels more like animadversion than rigorous reflection.

  • Without ever calling Shakespeare's linguistic greatness into question, Steiner suggests an alternative requirement for true greatness, that comprehended in the German term Dichter , which carries certain lofty notions of witness and moral responsibility.

  • 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.

  • Dr. Ober strews a variety of such booby-traps along the trail: the teasing reference to Peter Sellars' participation in Amadeus , for example, and the characterizing of George Steiner as the Oxford pundit.

  • But Professor Steiner's rhetoric and video-camera style were so persuasive that it was easy to overlook the fact that his argument (or part of it) was based on a complete misstatement of the facts.


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