enuf
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of enuf
First recorded in 1680–85
Example Sentences
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By then, he was an editor at Macmillan, where he published a book version of Ntozake Shange’s feminist play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” which had its premiere in 1976.
From New York Times
It was even worse after the American playwright Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” made it to Broadway in 1976, when Kennedy’s own work was hardly being produced.
From New York Times
Long before he joined the board of the Public Theater, and before his son, Lin-Manuel Miranda, composed one of the biggest hits in the theater’s history, “Hamilton,” Luis A. Miranda Jr. recalled the first show he ever saw there: Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.”
From New York Times
But then came her big break: a role as the Lady in Yellow in “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” mounted by True Colors Theater in Atlanta in 2009.
From New York Times
Brown was the director and choreographer for the critically acclaimed Broadway staging of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which closed earlier than expected.
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