Example sentences for: strachey

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

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • (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.

  • Even in Strachey's and the earlier Morris' wildest speculations, they hewed to an implied contract between reader and biographer that states, We'll go along with you as long as you make what you say sound like it had some basis, once upon a time, in verifiable or even plausible fact.


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