Example sentences for: vidal

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

  • But Gore Vidal said the mixing of fact with fantasy was appropriate for a president "whose life owed so little to Parson Weems and so much to Pirandello."

  • A South American delegate told Vidal, "We have come thousands of miles for these talks.

  • Some wonder if this is a result of having a living subject--"Kaplan doesn't push, doesn't ask discomfiting questions" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe )--and note that Vidal "seems to have been able to exert his considerable charm, guile, and authority over his biographer" (Martin Rubin, the Washington Times ). Several also mention that Kaplan has been beaten to the punch by Vidal himself, who released his own memoir, Palimpsest , just three years ago.

  • "Morris has written a model biography of a woman who, if born a man, could easily have been a President," says Luce's friend Gore Vidal in The New Yorker . Reviews dwell on the book's dishy detail, derived from Luce's diaries.

  • Byatt, Caleb Carr, Christopher Cerf, Ron Chernow, Shelby Foote, Stephen Jay Gould, Vartan Gregorian, Charles Johnson, Mary Karr, Jon Krakauer, Edmund Morris, Elaine Pagels, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Carolyn See, William Styron, and Gore Vidal.


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