Example sentences for: woolf

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

  • Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.

  • (Woolf herself is always losing the pulse of the narrative--which is perhaps the whole point.)

  • A chronological structure would have directly juxtaposed Jespersen with Woolf and then enabled the reader to find a way through the developments in the debate, giving a more coherent picture of the broadening issues.

  • The Feminist Critique of Language brings together a wide range of views and approaches to its subject, ranging from the conservative linguist Otto Jespersen and the author Virginia Woolf writing in the 1920s to contemporary critics.

  • In the last half-hour of Marleen Gorris' film of Mrs. Dalloway , Woolf's rhapsodic prose and Redgrave's radiant countenance combine for some of the most transcendentally beautiful cinema I have ever seen.


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