Sterne
Americannoun
noun
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Sterne was a muse of the broken-hearted, and, for all its oddities, “Tristram Shandy” is 18th-century sentimental fiction at its finest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Newling and Mendes started researching, and discovered another out-of-print book: “John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet,” a fly-on-the-wall account by Richard Sterne, an ensemble actor who smuggled a tape recorder into the rehearsal room.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
Johnson noted global literary references including works by Miguel Cervantes, Laurence Sterne, Gabriel García Márquez and Günter Grass intersecting with Hindu epics and folktales.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023
In a recent phone interview, Sterne discussed the challenge of continually rebuilding the show, what matters more than physical verisimilitude and the hardest role to crack.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022
Otto Sieber, Brian Witt, and Andy Sterne hired a helicopter to take them to the top of Mount St. Helens with film and camera equipment.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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