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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.
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.
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:
Culturebox thinks the outcry about Morris resembles the furor over Bloomsbury biographer Lytton Strachey.
2. Interpolations such as Strachey's, above, have become commonplace.