How To Use Sontag In A Sentence
- Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
- According to Sontag, cancer is often ‘felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, and repugnant to the senses.’
- But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life. Becoming Susan Sontag
- American feminist author Susan Sontag died at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering medical center at the age of 71, following a long struggle against cancer, the hospital announced.
- But there are plenty of times in this odd mismatch when Seligman the referee is the most absorbing person in the ring, not least when he's encouraging himself to make the most of Sontag. Odd Couple
- Adapter and star Moe Angelos plays the young Sontag alongside a video projection of the older, more iconic Sontag also played by Angelos, who smokes and offers gnomic comments while observing the action. Michael Giltz: Theater: Under The Radar and Coil Warm Up January
- I have no idea if that particular review is really where I first came encountered "hyaline", or if there's some conspiratorial agreement among critics that they should always describe Sontag's writing that way. Making Light: Open thread 136
- Sontag was once famously described as the most intelligent woman in America.
- Sontag argued against what was in effect the differentiated mode of signification implicit in the assumptions of uptown culture.
- It was Susan Sontag, who said that being a dandy was a way of being an individual in an age of mass culture. Media
