Example sentences for: writes

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  • The New York Times Book Review declares it one of the year's "ten best books," and Joyce Carol Oates, writing in The New Yorker (for which Updike often writes), calls it "the most inventive of his myriad fiction.

  • Tom Waits' first album in six years, which ditches the junkyard noise experimentation of his previous releases for a blues approach, gets passable reviews from Rolling Sone and Spin . "Waits seems to have peaked as a songwriter with 1985's Rain Dogs ," writes Ben Ratliff, "and he's still writing outtakes from that record" ( Rolling Stone ). Spin 's Sarah Vowell says, "Waits' coolie raps often feel a little fake, like he's working at having a good time."

  • "I appear to be caught in a catch 22; so far I have not spent over $250 per year on the Web site," he writes.

  • This disaster cannot be ended, writes the Post , without U.S. resolve to use force, resolve that, the paper notes, has been altogether missing from the Clinton administration.

  • The disturbing part is that Sheehy uses her theories not just to explain decisions that have proved historically momentous, but to explain them away . In Passages , for instance, Black Panther co-founder Eldridge Cleaver's role in the black nationalist movement is perceived as nothing more than an example of one man's difficulty making a necessary passage: "Taken to the extreme," she writes, "the unwillingness to commit leaves no quarter for expression of the merger self.


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