How To Use Cheever In A Sentence
- I received a call from Dennis Spain, Chief of Staff to Senator William Cheever of New York. He mentioned you were coming.
- The cartoon shows some helicopters, tanks and paratroopers converging on a suburban house; a typical schlump who looks like the sort of New York exurbanite not quite witty or lustful enough to get into a Cheever tale stands in the door.
- The welfare of the commonwealth was always upon the conscience of Ezekiel Cheever," said Judge Sewall, "and he abominated periwigs. 'Cheever: A Life'
- In 1941 Cheever married Mary Winternitz, whose father had been the dean of Yale Medical School and whose grandfather, Thomas A. Watson, had been a coinventor of the telephone. John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
- Cheever's flickering back and forth between a yearning for light and the destructive lure (alcoholic, carnal) of darkness is rendered on a scale at once "ingrown" and vast. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
- The chapter about the cafard and the search for a house with yellow windows is one for which I felt extraordinary empathy; I would love to have written this particularly, but writing such material surely had a certain price attached, and it's known that Cheever went through hell before receiving this vision. My Book Meme
- John Cheever was one of the most prominent American short story writers in the twentieth century.
- I think Cheever used to point to George Plimpton's pad and tell him, "Okay put down two colons, then the word 'blinks', and now two more colons," back when he'd be interviewed for The Paris Review. Nick Mamatas' Journal
- Living in Italy for extended periods was the great geographical adventure of Cheever's life and a foil to his obsession with American exurbia. John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
- To the mother it seemed perfectly American, the America she admired, culled from literature, handpicked fruit—Nineteenth Century and Yankee Emily Dickinson, later—Twentieth Century, waspy, Cheeveresque, ice clinking in a martini glass. Still Life, With Girl
