Example sentences for: yardley

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  • The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)

  • Yardley hunts in their margins for clues to Exley's inner life, with modest results.

  • Books -- A Fan's Notes , by Frederick Exley, and Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley , by Jonathan Yardley;

  • In Yardley's affectionate yet dubious portrait of a man he knew only through rambling late-night phone calls, Exley was a classic one-hit wonder, a writer who never overcame his breakthrough.

  • Most reviewers, such as the Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley, complain that Stahl "pulls her punches" and spends too much time on anecdotes about past presidents and too little on exactly what it took for her to get where she is.


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