Example sentences for: stoppard

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  • Stoppard belongs to an international literary tradition--call it brain-teaser modernism--whose theatrical godfather is Luigi Pirandello, and which includes writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Queneau, and Italo Calvino.

  • I can't wait to read Martin Amis on Hannibal , Tom Stoppard on his newfound Jewish heritage, and Mimi Swartz on the legal revenge being exacted by wronged first wives.

  • Since the late '70s, however, Stoppard has shown intermittent dissatisfaction with the kind of intellectual jeux d'esprit that made his name and has committed himself to a more ambitious theater of ideas.

  • Stoppard, who started out as a journalist and theater critic, turned to play writing in the late 1950s, at a moment when, as he once said, "the least fashionable playwright was as fashionable as the most fashionable novelist."

  • The scene I've just described is an exemplary Tom Stoppard moment: A literary in-joke that turns on the accidental, and wholly conjectural, collision of two historical figures.


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