Example sentences for: wilde

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

  • Quite a tribute to the playwright, except that one set of Wilde's characters now talks over the lines of another set and pays no attention to the action on stage.

  • But there are two more important reasons why this is a Wilde time: homosexuality and celebrity.

  • At his best, Parker brings out the waltzingly malicious undercurrents in Wilde's "polite" intercourse, and his camera is at just the right distance to catch the anxious flickers of individuality under the socially mandated poses.

  • When André Gide revealed that Oscar Wilde had had sexual relations with a young Arab boy in Egypt, Wilde's friend Robert Sherard lamented: “Heavens!

  • Often called the first person famous for being famous, Wilde foreshadowed our modern celebrity obsession.


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