Example sentences for: wieseltier

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

  • In a long review-essay, Wieseltier demolished West's stature as a "public intellectual," portraying him as a pretentious egomaniac, a mass of contradictions, and a superficial thinker who dresses up diluted Marxism in incomprehensible phraseology.

  • I must admit to being poorly disposed toward West, mainly on the basis of a devastating critique in the New Republic by Leon Wieseltier that appeared in year 1995.

  • Chatterbox suggested, among others, Leon Wieseltier and Robert Torricelli, but his e-mail inbox overflowed with reader picks.

  • It's true that West can be formulaic, derivative, clunky, and annoyingly self-absorbed (though surely in this last category Wieseltier is more than a match for him).

  • Kudos to Jacob Weisberg for reading Cornel West on his own instead of relying on Leon Wieseltier's version.


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