Example sentences for: stevens

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

  • Only two words have more than one syllable: Stevens follows to extremes the old schoolhouse rule that short words work better than long ones.

  • Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he "can't paint very well" (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because "confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siècle ." (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)

  • Stevens' pork is so legendary, says the NYT , that a recent episode of the NBC sitcom West Wing features two legislative aides joking about a $2 million outlay to monitor Alaskan skies for volcanic ash--an appropriation that, unlike the rest of the sitcom, is not fictional.

  • Wallace Stevens needs to be read in isolation.

  • Academic interpreters have failed to meet the challenge posed by Helen Vendler in her landmark study On Extended Wings --to give up the search for intellectual subject matter and to treat Stevens as "pure sound."


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