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Chekhov

[ US /ˈtʃɛkɑv/ ]
NOUN
  1. Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)

How To Use Chekhov In A Sentence

  • Her career has included stage roles in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen.
  • Chekhov hoped to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation.
  • The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic.
  • Olga Knipper-Chekhova reeled back in shock and collapsed behind the curtain in confusion and terror.
  • This is Chekhov's contribution to Russian literature.
  • Indeed, when looking at the catalogue of Baby Cow's bleakly funny programmes – Marion and Geoff, Human Remains, Nighty Night, Sensitive Skin, Sarah and Lizzie – one could scarcely find a better description of them than Chekhov's own words for his subject matter: "the sad comicality of everyday life". Chekhov Shorts: 'I'm Ivan Nyukhin, aha!'
  • Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes.
  • Chekhov died in Badenweiler, a German spa town which he described to his sister as ‘desperately boring’.
  • 'Constance Garnett translated 73 volumes of Russian literature, which included Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Herzen and many others, but translating Chekhov gave her more pleasure than any other work' Constance Garnett by Edna O'Brien
  • This is Chekhov's contribution to Russian literature.
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