Example sentences for: strachey

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  • 2. Interpolations such as Strachey's, above, have become commonplace.

  • The pathetic state of international disaster relief--arguably the United Nations is better at peacekeeping , which isn't saying much--calls to mind Lytton Strachey's description, in Eminent Victorians , of the anarchy with which Florence Nightingale was confronted when she set out to help wounded British soldiers in Crimea.

  • (As Strachey makes clear, Nightingale's fake "lady with the lamp" image as the mother of modern nursing completely obscures her real significance, which was as a ruthlessly effective administrative reformer, first of a single military hospital and later of the entire British military-hospital system.)

  • Culturebox thinks the outcry about Morris resembles the furor over Bloomsbury biographer Lytton Strachey.

  • Strachey's most controversial liberty came at the end of a later biography of Queen Victoria, in which he made himself free to enter her mind as she died:


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