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

  • What critics like most about novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux's new work of fiction--about a British family in Hong Kong as the Chinese government takes back control--comes less from the novelist than the travel writer.

  • The Hong Kong handover creates the ideal subject for Theroux.

  • And while Theroux has never been noted for his celebration of the milk of human kindness--at his worst, he is so unrelentingly peeved with others that one wonders why he bothered to write about them--he does have an eye for the differences among people and among peoples, and a shrewd understanding of the irrational annoyance those differences provoke.

  • Book -- Kowloon Tong , by Paul Theroux;

  • Instead of princes and beefeaters, Theroux gives us a circumscribed tale about the fleecing of a dysfunctional British family by an unscrupulous businessman from mainland China.


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