How To Use Nabokov In A Sentence
- He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
- Langkow took two strides from the boards and beat Evgeni Nabokov with a low wrist shot stick side for his third of the postseason. USATODAY.com
- Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
- Suffice it to say that that rare enchanter Nabokov has a way of flitting in and out of my sights, as if ever-present, just there, behind my mind's eye. Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift
- Nabokov, of course, would have taken delight in using "scutch"; I suppose I'd go with "I feel in my gut the Fate tugging the thread" for phonetic and associational reasons, but I would regret losing the specificity of the technical term. Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
- He earned a berth on the World team in the All-Star Game and received the ultimate plaudit from coach Darryl Sutter, who appraised Nabokov's play by admitting that, ‘I don't worry about our goaltending.’
- But, aside from them, my departures from the "literal" which have been obelized by Mr. Nabokov (I hope he has to look up that word) were dictated by the desire to do justice to Pushkin in preserving some poetic tone. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
- Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery. Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story
- Ron Rosenbaum recently wrote something similar about Dmitri Nabokov's reluctance to have his father's legacy embroiled in biographical controversy: Canonical Writers
- When I walk through the sand dunes, I think of Vladimir Nabokov, the most famous amateur lepidopterist of the century. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
