How To Use Evelyn waugh In A Sentence
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Oxford, as Evelyn Waugh astutely observed, is a city best seen in early summer.
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That he would use this term, as well as the equally condescending "zany" in referring to this latter comedy makes his valuation of it clear enough, but later he also remarks that "Evelyn Waugh, alas, still represents the great image of English comedy in the 20th century, rather than his subtler and gentler contemporary, Henry Green.
Comedy in Literature
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Almost all current writing about Africa depends on a blend of Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh: the brooding, throbbing stagnation of the Congo and the sinister farce of egomaniacal "Afrocentric" politics.
African Gothic
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Actually, I was quite worried about doing a comic novel, because I'm a massive fan of PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh, and I was terrified I was going to lapse into a pastiche of their style.
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As Evelyn Waugh says on the back of all the Penguin editions, ‘Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.’
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Evelyn Waugh might have dismissed them as pathetic muddlers who did not belong in the church.
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It's like a scene out of Anthony Powell or Evelyn Waugh, a bit of macabre comedy that seems innocent compared with the grotesqueries of the bloodshed ahead.
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By nature he is a social realist in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, whose novels he reveres along with those of social satirist Evelyn Waugh.
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In a boneheaded error straight out of an Evelyn Waugh novel, a high-level muckymuck at the Times must have barked, "Get me Billy Crystal for the Op-Ed page!" and some poor schnook thumbed through a rolodex and called The Wrong Guy.
Hullabaloo
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But a remark by Evelyn Waugh about the juvenilia of Ronald Knox comes to mind, that only by ‘shameless and inept experiments’ does any writer achieve ‘mastery of a very difficult language’.
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Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Belloc considered him unequalled as a writer of prose fiction.
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William Boot demanded of the Daily Beast's foreign editor on being invited to report on an African civil war in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's immortal 1938 comic novel of journalism.
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Hilaire Belloc, J.K. Huysmans, G.K. Chesterton, and Evelyn Waugh (who quoted The Waste Land frequently) all made an initial reputation for nightmarish satire before retreating into a not always convincing nook of Catholicism.
Letters to the Editor
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The title of Evelyn Waugh's first novel was 'Decline and Fall'.
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The title of Evelyn Waugh's first novel was 'Decline and Fall'.
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Not since ITV's Brideshead Revisited, 20 years ago now, has an English country house been home to so many familiar names, and if Gosford Park life lacks the vicious streak of Evelyn Waugh's work, its playful devilry is a joy.
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Two of the abler young novelists of the time, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, were converts to Roman Catholicism.
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Evelyn Waugh couldn't have scripted it better.
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And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh.
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He is part of the starry ensemble in Stephen Fry's Evelyn Waugh adaptation Bright Young Things.
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In London, Evelyn Waugh used to walk through rainstorms into Hampstead to mail letters so that they'd be franked with the prestigious NW3 postcode.
Following the Bobos to Greener Pastures
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The title of Evelyn Waugh's first novel was 'Decline and Fall'.
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If he wants to be tight all the time," said Julia Flyte of her dipsomaniacal brother Sebastian in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," "then why doesn't he go and live in Kenya?
Forging a Country in African Wilds
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Novelist Evelyn Waugh graphically described the tableau as ‘a wildly vivacious statue of the Abbe Faria, a Goan mesmerist of the Napoleonic era, caught here in hot bronze at the climax of an experiment, rampant over an entranced female.’
