Example sentences for: voltaire

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

  • Similarly for Voltaire (not funny), Thomas Fuller (The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir--clever but not funny), and Bertrand Russell (There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge--wise but not funny), and Sigmund Freud (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar--a straight line funny only to us).

  • To see Pol Pot today is to be reminded of Voltaire: "We must cultivate our ..."

  • After the morose twilight years of the Sun King, the societal tone changed with the satiric pen of Voltaire and the erotic fantasies of Watteau’s paintings and Marivaux’s comedies.

  • In the Hôtel Lambert, on the corner of the rue St-Louis-en-l’Ile, Voltaire once enjoyed a tempestuous love affair with the lady of the house, the Marquise du Châtelet.

  • In a foreword to Duke's latest book, a 700-page autobiography judged by hate group watchers to be the most naked statement yet of the former KKK grand wizard's racist views, Whitney calls Duke a "seeker of truth," comparing him to Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire and declaring his vision of racially segregated societies to be based on "good science."


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